[nvy]

Sam Altman is the poster child of the silicon valley techbro (derogatory).

He and his orbiters have done real an irreparable harm to the Internet while profiting enormously from unlicensed copyrighted works (aka piracy).

"Open" "AI" is pure hypocrisy, an embodiment of the two parallel sets of rules: one for the commons and one for the elite.

Sama deserves more than a little pushback on and scrutiny of his claims.

[VelesDude]

> He and his orbiters have done real an irreparable harm to the Internet

He and his orbiters have done real an irreparable harm to the ecosystem by pushing such intense compute systems unthinkingly.

[nvy]

You mean the environment? Absolutely.

We can't have discussion of that on HN, though, so the moderator has flagged it.

[FreakLegion]

Users flagged it.

[nvy]

I stand corrected.

I still despise the HN policy of "no criticism of tech CEOs" whether official or otherwise.

Try to say something bad about Steve Jobs? Nah that's not "curious conversation".

Whatever.

[FreakLegion]

It wasn't flagged for being critical of Altman, though. There are long, critical discussions of Altman here all the time. It was flagged because Gary Marcus is fast descending into provocateur-ish nutterdom and the article is, quite simply, poorly constructed rage bait.

About your own two downvoted posts: They probably aren't downvoted for the reasons you think! Your opinions are pretty widely shared here. A lot of people agree with you about the copyright issue, about the farcical non-openness of OpenAI, and about the environmental stakes. It's the other bits (insults, complaints about moderation) we can do without.

[nvy]

The faux-politeness is one of the reasons HN has a reputation for being arrogant and aloof.

I think Sam is a bad person who deserves to be insulted. I prefer to call a spade a spade.