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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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There's a Charles Stross novel from 2018 where cultists take over the US government and begin a project to build enough computational capacity to summon horrors from beyond space-time (in space). It's called The Labyrinth Index and it's very good!
So anyway, this happened:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-isnt-yet-working-toward-an-ipo-cfo-says-58037472
Also, this:
What's a government backstop, and does it happen often? It sounds like they're asking for a preemptive bail-out.
I checked the rest of Zitron's feed before posting and its weirder in context:
Interview:
Later at the jobsite:
She then proceeds to explain she just meant that the government 'should play its part'.
Zitron says she might have been testing the waters, or its just the cherry on top of an interview where she said plenty of bizzare shit
@Architeuthis @o7___o7
"I don’t think there’s enough exuberance about AI"
Tinkerbell needs you all to wish harder, boys and girls
Every horrible person in my life "tests the waters" like that before going mask-off 100% asshole.
It gives that feeling, doesn't it?
Truly a rightwing tech, after getting all the attention, money and data they now are mad people dont love it enough.
@Architeuthis @o7___o7
“I don’t think there’s enough exuberance about AI"? Wow.
Zitron's stated multiple times a bailout isn't coming, but I'm not ruling it out myself - AI has proven highly useful as a propaganda tool and an accountability sink, the oligarchs in office have good reason to keep it alive.
Between this and the IPO talk it seems like we're looking at some combination of trying to feel out exit strategies for the bubble they've created, trying to say whatever stuff keeps the "OpenAI is really big" narrative in the headlines, and good old fashioned business idiocy.
Sounnds like she used her internal voice externally