The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/openai-government-sam-altman-donald-trump-ai-5b2676a2

by thm • 16 days ago

8 18 16 days ago

For the billionth time already, socialism is not "when the government does it." Using the government to increase your capital and become even richer is standard capitalism.

Altman is not now and will not ever relinquish any means of production he own to the workers.

satvikpendem8• 16 days ago

Well, OpenAI workers do own shares. Tech companies are significantly more socialist than any other large scale enterprises in modern history (I don't know enough about pre-modern history to say).

watwut3• 16 days ago

That is not socialism.

geysersam3• 16 days ago

Why do you say that?

pyeri• 16 days ago

Altman may not be an altruist but the overall direction the organization takes is what matters in the end. And as long as that organization retains even a semblance of a non-profit (despite having a revenue centric approach to tackle competition in the field), it is still a preferable organization to Anthropic and Amodei.

The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman

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