The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman

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Refreeze5224•about 3 hours 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.

pyeri•about 1 hour 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.

satvikpendem•about 2 hours 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).

geysersam•about 2 hours ago

Why do you say that?

satvikpendem•about 2 hours ago

What do you mean why?

watwut•about 2 hours ago

That is not socialism.

satvikpendem•about 2 hours ago

Workers owning the means of production, and shares are ownership. So yes it is (one form of) socialism.

The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman

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