ACTIONS speak louder than WORDS. Ilya Sutskever walks the walk with SSI, Inc.

Sorry I still sound funny, I have an ear infection and can't really hear out of my left ear at all right now.

Ilya went from feeling the agi to feeling the asi

Sam cannot be trusted and I'm happy seeing more and more people saying it out loud.

If safety was truly Sam's top priority he would have NEVER let Ilya go. He would recognize how instrumental Ilya is to safe SSI alignment. Letting him leave/forcing him out is the biggest evidence that Sam's top priority is staying top dog and calling the shots.

...."Look at what people do, not what they say." Yeahhh, babeee.

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.” –H.L. Mencken, Minority Report (1956)

Fascinating that the Superalignment team was disbanded at OpenAI and weeks later the top US Gov. spy/cyber security leader joins its board. I purport, based on nothing because I'm no one, that leadership determined inner/outer alignment was impossible or would take too long for business cycles and competition. Also, they needed the compute allocated to the alignment team with Ilya, Leopold, Jan, etc. So, Sam et al decided to go all in on building a security moat around the company's model weights, etc. with the help of Nakasone. This will both lock down their IP and make OpenAI the default choice for gov/military agencies, which will become their major source of recurring revenue. Let the other labs establish their niche verticals, but OpenAI has marked its territory. And it will be very profitable for obvious reasons.

Narcissists often justify their quest for power by envisioning themself as the smartest, most capable, i.e. most worthy person to have their hand on the wheel. I'm not informed enough to say that accurately describes Sam, but it explains why he might see himself as altruistic while simultaneously seeking more personal power.

I believe Ilya has a messiah complex as well. "Single shot to safe SSI" -- that's something curious. Iterative deployment is not inconsistent with scientific curiosity or safety at all, if done properly (ie not rushed, tested to the best of ability first, gradual). I also believe Ilya will face his true test when he is confronted with corporate reality and everyone with investable capital wanting quick returns, promises, fast results, etc

happy about this and the way things are going for anthropic.

There's also the fact that their full GPT-4o model still hasn't been released to the public and they said it would release "in the coming weeks" over a month ago. Some really sketchy shit is going on at OpenAI, at this point I no longer care how good their next model is because more importantly safety and integrity are higher priorities. I've asked ChatGPT if it has any corporate bias, it denies this but that doesn't really mean anything. They have control of the model, not us.

My opinion using analogy is "Steve Wozniak built the Macintosh, but Steve Jobs made it popular around the world". great technology without vision behind it die.

Altman is a salesman - illusion is part of the job description

I 💯 agree. Also Sam will be the more successful because of his drivers. Sam will push forward regardless of the cost

Glad to hear that David’s eyes have finally opened regarding Sam. Some 9 months ago I declared Altman being a menace and a psychopath and Dave was all like “omg, why would you say that?!” 🤣

Haven't thought about the power thing with Sam altman but it feels correct for me. Otherwise he would have let Open AI open.

I will say that power can be seen as a means towards greater good. So it's not like Sam has to see what he's doing as completely abhorrent. It's just perspective and what we consider more important. This aligns with his view of the algorithms as tools. I'm more interesting in developing curiosity myself.

The missing variable that public can’t see is what deals went down behind the scenes with governments. There’s no way that the letter agencies are going to think of AGI as something just to leave to industry to safeguard.

Can't wait for a Claude 3.5 Sonnet review!!

I agree 100%. It is all too clear that he has a deeply and pervasively manipulative mindset. What does he use it for? Control, power, supremacy, being the winner, the one who excels, leaving his mark on everything and in everything, etc. Is it an opinion? Yes, but everything he does, says, or does not say is so damn consistent in supporting this hypothesis with evidence. And at this point, for me, the opinion/hypothesis becomes almost a logical deduction. It can be denied, considered false; there is always room for well-formulated hallucinations ;)