Comment by kelseyfrog
21 hours ago
On the hook for what?
The current US government has a fundamentally different ontology for the derivation of human rights.
Wheras you and I likely agree that human rights are inalienable due to them being derived from the universe nature of human experience, the administration believes that human rights begin and end with them, the state. When they're the one able to affect the world with violence, it doesn't matter who's on the hook. The US electorate thought they could heal a status wound by authoritarianism instead of therapy and everyone else is paying the price.
On the hook for whatever comes after. Best case scenario, democrats will peacefully take control again, and pretend to forget about Sam's complicity. But he'll still face civil suits, I hope personally as well as the company itself.
Wort case, the current admin will make nazis look like cosplayers, and within a decade or so, he'll be standing next other ceos facing a tribunal in front of whatever entity managed to topple the former regime, and it will be under warcrime terms that are yet to be defined and for atrocities, which if history teaches us anything, will be so horrific our current ability to imagine antrocities is insufficient to allows to speculate on their nature.
In short, whatever trump does with openai, Sam Altman is in the "whatever trump wants to do was lawful" camp. Even then, perhaps the next regime will fail to learn from history and focus on rebuilding, but if they do learn from history they'll understand that you really can't hold back when it comes to these things. We're in this mess because of failure to sufficiently punish the nazis and the confederates in the US, both of which lasted only for about half a decade by the way. it isn't enough to teach people how horrible nazis and confederates were, the German approach is sensible, but a more extreme approach might be required.
Funny thing is, this might just save openai from total collapse. But if this is the price to keeping the economy alive, even at my own personal cost I hope the economy collapses completely along with these companies and regime.
I'm so sorry, but the closure of justice will never occur. The United States is incompatible with its existence.
As much as a third reconstruction is desperately needed, my desire for its existence is not materially tied to it being rendered into the world.