Didn't come up with that simile, but it might fit:
It's like a fleshed out version of a 12 year old thinking "everything would be great if I was in charge, because I'm smart and people are dumb"
Something about people who are too impressed with their own smarts and swap pet theories that make them feel smart.
be me, super genius autodidact
be deeply moved by the prospect of defeating death with technology, write some sick prose about it because am eloquent as fuck
proceed to punt this goal decades or centuries by helping to justify a tech bubble which consumes tons of R&D resources for no apparent benefit and will bind further resources in the future to adapt to an aggravated climate crisis, and also inspiring a slew of technofascists too dumb to tell the difference between tech that benefits mankind and tech that exploits and oppresses
mein face when
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[Reporter Dude] If you launch the coin, isn't it unfair for you to snipe the coin?
[Shitcoin Wizard] ponders deeply I would say no.
[Reporter Dude] WTF did he just say that on the record?
The pivot-to-ai writeup is out, they did seed! I assume it's documented then.
Multinational corporations can act ethically after all.
Not my place to tell you what to post, but I would have just made a link post to your blog. I found it more pleasant to read, and gave me an incentive to poke through your backlog. Entertaining stuff!
Less meta: you just prompted me to actually remember when my Internet journey actually began. Must have been early to mid oughts, mostly playing flash games on lego.com . I remember an elementary school buddy came over one day and helped me create the Email I'd use for 15 years, and introduced me to some regional forum that went offline many years ago.
Fits a pattern I've seen before. Kinda critical of OpenAI and not buying their PR wholesale, but also accepting the framing that AI is some kind of critical foundational tech instead of another shitty magic trick.
Dear god, my ribs are hurting after 2 paragraphs already.
Frankly, it just didn't stand out. The entire post is such a hoot. Someone must be microdosing meth again.
By the way, thank you Terry Pratchett for teaching me the use of Meaningful Capitalisation.
This isn't a copyright thing. This is a tech regulation thing, that creates the possibility for data protection agencies to stick their noses in AI company's business.
I'm interpreting your phrasing as you believing that the non-profit "taking over" is somehow good, because profit motive bad presumably. But regardless of incentives, everyone involved is trying to flood the world with slop by incinerating cash and processors on industrial scales.
But so far the cash incinerator has been running on speculative financial products issued by a club of esoteric computer scientists trying to awaken the robot god. Investors are slightly uncomfortable with this, so Sammy boy is trying to offer them a more traditional vehicle to incinerate their cash (while indulging in his personal profit motive a bit).