JA WestenbergApr 13

The "4D chess" interpretation of OpenAI buying TBPN requires you to believe Sam Altman, mid-AI-war, decided a talk show with fewer subscribers than most gaming streamers was the best use of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The rational interpretation requires you to have met literally any CEO.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/sometimes-powerful-people-just-do-dumb-shit/

Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit

In June 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte marched 685,000 soldiers into Russia - the largest military force ever assembled in European history up to that point, and one of the largest military fuckups of all time. He had no coherent supply plan for feeding them, he had no realistic timeline for

Westenberg.
Show threadPaul SchoeApr 13

I love this quote in Westenberg's article here about OpenAI:

"Every failure becomes a setup for a future success that never arrives, and every scandal a distraction from a larger game that never materializes.

The goalposts disappear entirely, because the frame has become unfalsifiable; any outcome can be absorbed into the theory.

If the plan works, it was genius. If it doesn’t, the real plan hasn’t been revealed yet."

#OpenAI #Altman #Westenberg
@Daojoan

Show threadPaul Schoe

Another quote from Westenberg's article here about OpenAI:

"... believers .... who treat confusion as evidence of their own limited understanding rather than evidence that the thing they’re looking at is, in fact, confused."

#OpenAI #Altman #Westenberg
@Daojoan

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