Comment by AnonAcc on Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy · 2024-02-12T00:05:05.201Z · LW · GW

Hearing Altman talk about safety reminds me of Sam Bankman-Fried testifying in congress that FTX was all about protecting consumers, their main goal was risk management, and they strongly supported regulation.

Comment by AnonAcc on Altman firing retaliation incoming? · 2023-11-19T22:40:47.112Z · LW · GW

Worth noting that Sam Altman has a history of hostile power plays e.g. at reddit

Paul Graham has written multiple times about Sam's thirst/skill for power:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny 

http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html 

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1726248463355281633

Comment by AnonAcc on Scott Aaronson on "Reform AI Alignment" · 2022-11-21T20:18:03.092Z · LW · GW

This is wonderfully written, thank you.

I do worry that "further division and tribal warfare" seems the default, unless there's an active effort at reconciliation.

Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) tweets things like:

 

LessWrong compares OpenAI with Phillip Morris and, in general, seems very critical of OpenAI. "I've seen a lot more public criticism lately".

I doubt that it's actually good to have this strong division, and it might have positive EV to try to move into a more cooperative direction, and try to lower the temperature and divisiveness.