Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar

That's probably why they are two of the most powerful men currently in existence.

When there is something genuinely acknowledged as being valuable - and a $900B company certainly qualifies - people are going to fight over it. Only natural, because in most cases the way to get power is to fight for things that will make you powerful. Just look at the history of Facebook or Twitter or Google Chauffeur/Waymo or Cisco or the U.S. presidency.

When you get wealth and power without fighting, it's usually because you managed to identify something that would eventually make you powerful without anyone else realizing that it's important, until you become too big to overthrow. This is the story of the Google founders or E-bay or Github or...I can't really think of others, it's a pretty rare path to success. Either that, or seem non-threatening and mild-mannered enough that nobody attacks you and then be the last one standing after all the combative types have destroyed each other, like how Sundar got to be CEO of Alphabet or Bran Stark won the Seven Kingdoms.

This is what happens when you’ve spent most of your adult life being told you’re an unparalleled genius.

Expect it to get worse in the AI era because it comes with flattery as default.

Growing older is mandatory, growing up is not.

Your statement seems to imply altman is comparable in power to musk.

International politics is familiar to anyone who has supervised a group of 2-4 year olds.

It's no surprise; immense power precludes maturity.

A good reminder to not treat rich retards as visionaries just because they happen to be rich.

Unfortunately, even if they do it wont change anything. Unless the rich are punished by the "lowly" folk, nothing ever happens. Revolutions seem to part of the past though, life is _just_ comfortable enough to not actively do something about the upper classes wrongdoings. I guess the good news is that humanities time is slowly ending anyway due to untackled climate issues. I wonder how Europe will handle the 200 million people having to flee their countries within the next few decades.

No, both will win.

You cant possibly think Musk actively contributes to his companies, lol.

I think I'm agreement here. How is this a 'win'? Altman stated he heard people talking about him. What is this deposition, 6th grade lunch table?

Do you, sir, acknowledge that many call you a liar?

Yes.

You deny it see, but.. ah bugger.. I hadn't planned for this outcome..

How can you "lose steam" on an admission of one of your own arguments?

There's also

> his co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, testified he created a 52-page dossier documenting Altman’s “consistent pattern of lying.”

Oddly enough the article doesn't go into that any further, despite what would seem like extremely relevant information.