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1. 0c3ca83 · 1790171699 · focus · HN ↗

   Yes, if the product is seen as bad for the world, it won't sell. But it's pretty bad for people, and I don't know how you'd hide that for the people being harmed.

   1. thewhitetulip · 1790173545 · focus · HN ↗

      The same way Goebbels did fir Nazis

      1. ch4s3 · 1790173750 · focus · HN ↗

         Is Altman planning to annex the Sudetenland?

         1. palmotea · 1790174196 · focus · HN ↗

            > Is Altman planning to annex the Sudetenland?

            No, he's not a literalist throwback. But he is planning to glorify and expand his OpenAI reich.

            1. ch4s3 · 1790174686 · focus · HN ↗

               This is insanely hyperbolic. OepnAI is not a "reich" there is no empire here, it's a company and some data centers. They don't have paramilitary thugs, territorial ambitions, or genocidal intent. They're just a run of the mill company run by an asshole.

               1. jackb4040 · 1790175429 · focus · HN ↗

                  > They don't have paramilitary thugs

                  In many municipalities across the country they have purchased the police department, made them to sign NDAs, and had them arrest people for speaking against data centers in open forums.

                  1. ch4s3 · 1790176222 · focus · HN ↗

                     OpenAI has not purchased any police departments this is a lie.
               2. palmotea · 1790186350 · focus · HN ↗

                  > This is insanely hyperbolic. OepnAI is not a "reich" there is no empire here, it's a company and some data centers. They don't have paramilitary thugs, territorial ambitions, or genocidal intent.

                  I think there's something like a "reich" here, but don't take the comparison too literally. OpenAI wants to invade society and change it to match their vision, and they're going to do everything in their power (which is quite a lot), to make it go in their direction, and they care little about the harm they will cause. The rest of us are just Czechs to them.

                  1. ch4s3 · 1790187492 · focus · HN ↗

                     > OpenAI wants to invade society

                     Again this is super hyperbolic.

                     > going to do everything in their power (which is quite a lot)

                     No it's not a lot. They are heavily bound by law, they're struggling against local zoning just like everyone else.

                     Look I get it, Sam Atlman is an incredibly ghoulish person but the hitler comparisons are just fucking dumb and everyone should aspire to better discourse here.

         2. mrguyorama · 1790178262 · focus · HN ↗

            No, he just wants you cut off from society if you don't submit your eye to his orb and he doesn't want you to be able to use this thing that he claims is so powerful unless he has total authority over who can and cannot use it and what for.

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