Comment by deaux
1 day ago
> It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything. He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything.
No, he doesn't have everything. See, maybe he's worth $3 billion. Or maybe $30 billion. But he's not worth $300 billion. That's a lot more worth he could have! And even then, he could be worth $3 trillion instead!
But yes, $100 million is the maximum amount of assets one individual should ever be allowed to hold. Potentially less. Anything higher is enormously harmful to society. People would get used to it very quickly and would work just as hard to reach that $100 million as they do now to reach $100 billion.
“Yes, but I have something he will never have — ENOUGH” - Joseph Heller.
After a billion dollars, I doubt another billion will make you happier. In fact, I don’t think another trillion will make you happier. In fact, I don’t think another quadrillion dollars will make you happier, etc.
After a certain point you have effectively infinite money. Enough money to live dozens of extremely comfortable lifetimes. And importantly enough money to afford to actually have some principles. Oh no, he wouldn’t be able to afford to have his house re-covered in 24 karat gold again if he doesn’t fellate our lolcow president.
'Dozens' should be multiples by many million, but I definitely agree with the sentiment.
Way more than a dozen!
We live in a capitalist economy. What do you expect, a company to just say 'Thats fine we have enough money we dont need any more'?
How does a $100 billion dollar company grow? By taking on massive government and military contracts, they are the only clients big enough left in the world.
If a company does not show continual growth then it is classed as failing. That is the society we have built, and you cannot blame one man for following those principles. Every CEO in existence does the same.
Somehow Anthropic’s CEO managed to reach a different conclusion.
They don’t have to do business with every single entity who asks them to and they don’t have to bend over for every stipulation that that entity asks for.
Yep, in exactly the same way that for years Google was 'not evil'.
When anthropic can no longer grow through developer subscriptions and deals with ethical companies, Lets see how long it takes their shareholders to force them to remove such sweet statements from their company mission statement.
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> We live in a capitalist economy.
We live in a multifaceted (are we allowed to use that word again? I think 2026 models have stopped using it) economy.
> That is the society we have built
Maybe you have, I sure haven't. Luckily "we" also haven't, as many - no, the overwhelming majority of people - aren't like that.
> and you cannot blame one man for following those principles.
You absolutely can, as much as you can blame the sadistic guards at Auschwitz.
> Every CEO in existence does the same.
A shocking, bald-faced lie. How do you get these keystrokes out of your fingers? This is so trivially false it immediately outs itself as bad faith. It takes less time to fact-check as being made up than the average post on Truth Social.
> Maybe you have, I sure haven't.
If 'we', the collective population of the earth, have not made the society we live in, then who has?
> You absolutely can, as much as you can blame the sadistic guards at Auschwitz.
If this was true millions of German soldiers would have been captured and punished/killed at the end of the war. Guess what? They were all rehabilitaed and reintegrated into society, even though they all followed orders and killed millions of people. We did not judge them and gave them a second chance. Some simple research will show you this.
> It takes less time to fact-check as being made up than the average post on Truth Social.
It also takes less time and energy to just attack and be spiteful and insulting in a forum reply, than to engage in a discussion and explain your opinons properly.
I see you have taken the former option.
Please, come on.
Is this really the best backup?
Sam Altman has demonstrated that he's a piece of ** with this move.
We can now safely assume that all the pronouncements and grand statements before were simply posturing.
> Is this really the best backup?
It is the justification for anything any corporation does. This is a company with boards of directors and shareholders, you really think this is just Sams opinion guiding this?
> Sam Altman has demonstrated that he's a piece of * with this move.
Thats is your opinion based only on what his company has publicly dislcosed to you. I prefer not to judge a mans character based on corporate puffery.
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