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Comment by nopinsight

3 years ago

I've seen Sam's tweet that strongly suggests that he's in fact in or very close to camp 4), which you call Brockist.

People often underestimate Sam as yet another capitalist. I believe his thinking is on quite another level and he does care for humanity. He doesn't seem to care about making much more money personally. He said on another occasion that he made money faster than he can spend it anyway.

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upwardbound  3 years ago

This is very nice to hear. I deeply hope & pray your view is accurate, and I suppose I will be cautiously optimistic.

  • upwardbound  3 years ago

    For those interested, another proposed name being thrown around for the Brockism idea is Overhang Reductionism, since it's safer to name the idea independent of any one person so far since there is not yet proof that Brockman himself endorses a chip slowdown beyond what we can infer from this:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38323939

        "Alongside rifts over strategy, board members also contended with Altman’s entrepreneurial ambitions. Altman has been looking to raise tens of billions of dollars from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to create an AI chip startup to compete with processors made by Nvidia Corp."

  • depr  3 years ago

    That is based only on what Altman himself says, I don't think that is sufficient for optimism.