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Re:Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the D... by wredcoll on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:52PM (#47176678)
Technology advances have inevitably produced unemployment. Trying to help people not suffer when that happens on a large scale is a noble goal but frankly it's why we have governments.

Also, the genie is well and truly out of the bottle, if anthropic shutdown tomorrow and lit everything they had produced on fire, amazon, microsoft, china, everyone would continue where they left off.

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Re:Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the D... by vallejogameair on Friday February 27, 2026 @12:02AM (#47176748)
Privatise the gains and socialise the losses. How very typical. I hope you feel the same way in the bread lines alongside everyone else.

I'm suggesting your realpolitik of "others doing it too" is incompatible with a moral position. I know none of these ghouls will stop burning the world. I'm sick of them virtue signalling about how righteous they are while doing it.

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Re:Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the D... by viking123 on Friday February 27, 2026 @12:53AM (#47176981)
At least with Altman you know the guy just wants money, with Amodei you get this grandstanding and 6 more months fear mongering every 6 months and it is insufferable. Worst person in the AI space BY FAR. Hope the Chinese open source models get so good that these ghouls lose everything.

The product is actually good though, I could pay for it if Amodei just shut up but by principle I won't now and just stick with codex.

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Re:Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the D... by moozooh on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:40AM (#47179848)
Altman has more money than he can spend already; I rather think what he wants is power, historical significance, being the first to touch God (even if he is obliterated by His divine light the next moment). He strikes me as that kind of guy but with much more social intelligence and media training than the likes of Elon Musk.
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