[whack]

> If OpenAI achieves AGI and you invested in it, you get infinite returns

The article states that this is explicitly false. By design, OpenAI's investor returns are capped at 100x.

I find it odd that 3 other people have also replied to your comment and I'm the first one to mention that OpenAI has explicitly capped investor returns to prevent an explosion in inequality. I wonder how many people read the full article before commenting.

[evrydayhustling]

The cap is one of the reasons this wager might actually be great marketing.

- General hubris (ambition?) weeds out skeptics (curmudgeons?) In the audience right away. Not the intended buyer!

- Every minute a potential investor spends contemplating the impact of a 100x return cap is a moment they are framing on that outcome.

- OpenAI already proved that they can advance the cutting edge on specific AI tasks. In that context, AGI is a good smokescreen (or the kind of North star that you navigate toward without reaching). It's attractive to idealistic investors and new hires, but also justifies pragmatic research.

I don't put weight on the AGI goal, but I fully believe that Sam can help find business models in the research projects that can be executed with a critical mass of talent and capital.

[rfrey]

I wonder if that was poor wording from the reporter. They write “capped” but then describe a liquidation preference.

[mcguire]

Once the superintelligence achieves godhood, ye will remember yr true faithful.