I do not trust this man to do anything in my best interest. He is a disingenuous and untrustworthy messenger, and if allowed to continue unchecked will end up the overlord of a new hyper-capitalist dystopian nightmare. I’m genuinely afraid of this guy and people like him.
I’ll remind folks that this is a man with such appalling hubris that he thinks he should be able to raise trillions of dollars to make his own fantasies come true.
And an outspoken apocalypse doomsday prepper. Definitely the kind of ideals we want in unilateral control of nuclear power plants. This guy can’t fuck off sooner and any entity that would back his enterprise is either fucking stupid or blinded by greed.
He can’t be worse than the ones that are already our overlords. At least he could theoretically free us from slaving our lives away. Probably won’t, but could…
Yeah I hear you, but I think that’s actually a big part of the problem. We the plebs want AI to free us from slaving away our lives. But Altman and those like him will never have the same motivations as us, so I’ll never trust them to develop the technology in a responsible way that actually benefits the majority of people, not just the tippy top of the absurdly wealthy.
AI will never free you under capitalism
Are you serious? AI is about lowering the cost of labor for office workers by not needing junior talent. None of these billionaires are going to free you from slaving your life away.
His crypto scheme was already raising eyebrows. When OpenAI board attempted a coup and he clawed back to his seat, it seemed like he had gained complete control over the place.
The dude really gave off Stephen Holstrom from Pantheon vibes. (Even if they made him look like Steve Jobs)
Yeah, cuz that’s totally worth it. Nuclear reactors that mostly power laziness, porn addictions or malicious actors. Why don’t you work on making the power requirements LESS instead, Sam?
LOL okay Greenpeace.
Just keep kicking that can down the road…
How carbon dioxide is better to you is a mystery to me.
If you want the other things to stop, you’ll have to kill all humans.
Like you’ve never heard of wind or solar? If not, best get with the rest of the world, friend.
So he named his company after the world’s only natural nuclear reactor in Oklo
Am I the only one who gets tired of having search results (which are already terrible) get even worse when capitalists take names for their products and companies from native languages and locations, making it harder to find information about the pre-existing stuff?
I’m interested in Gabon’s natural nuclear reactor, not in some stupid saltman company.
Alls I know is, putting nuclear technology in the hands of a techbro can only work out great for everyone.
When they layoff everyone and leave the place poisoned for millennia, the share price is gonna jump!
There are regulations in place, and nuclear power plants do not leave toxic waste around them? They aren’t like coal plants that simply dump the waste into the air.
This is why the government requires you to have long term finances that can be used to prevent a disaster long term due to financial issues.
I think you make a good case for making energy production a public utility. Private ownership of essential services is ethically bankrupt. The fact that a company can fail and leave people without core services, is disgusting in my opinion. Even more disgusting is that they almost always seek public funds to bail them out.
You misunderstood. The government requires that the company invest plenty of extra money into funding in case the company fails. I think this is a bond but I don’t remember.
For instance, the TMI (three mile island) decommission started in 2019 and will be finished by 2079. There has been multiple changes in ownership but the current company is using the leftover cleanup funds to slowly decommission the site.
started in 2019 and will be finished by 2079
Wow what a success story. I’ll trust that everything works out great by 2079.
the current company is using the leftover cleanup funds
So the current company didn’t have plenty of extra funds in funding? It’s just taking a cut of the “leftover” cleanup funds? Sounds extremely effective and responsible.
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This guy creeps me out in a modern Zuckerberg way.