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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Another research poet drops, this time Zoë Hitzig from Open AI https://archive.is/dfuzP Are research poets a thing I just didn't know about?
She's quitting because of the introduction of ads, but falls short of either realising or just admitting that OpenAI never cared about safety - they cared about hedging expensive legal risk.
Is buying into the idea of corporate principle declarations something people do as a mental health protection mechanism?
Are they genuinely naive enough to think self-governance works in a capitalist system?
Is this a political long play to maintain her desirability as a future hire?
Someone should write both a paper and a poem about that.
@fiat_lux @techtakes Yes, they're that naive.
Fish don't notice the water they swim in and don't realize life exists outside of it. And the whole AI bubble is 100% capitalism-centric. (Research institutions got priced out of the game a few years ago and are tinkering around the margins.)
A cursed idea:
North Koreans futzing around and trying to train a model on Juche Thought.
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> Is buying into the idea of corporate principle declarations something people do as a mental health protection mechanism?
Probably but I can't speak to this directly.
> Are they genuinely naive enough to think self-governance works in a capitalist system?
I used to be this naive, though in my defense it's a combination of naivete and heavy exposure to propaganda.
That's fair, the propaganda is intense and I often forget that my upbringing on a strict diet of cynicism is not something others have to experience.