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by techblueberry 126 days ago
I think what's amazing to me is, we used to have Steve Jobs' exaggerations, the "reality distortion field" and correct me if wrong, but he basically delivered on the visions he had. Then Musk started to ratchet up the lies more and more, but I think Trump coming into the office essentially supercharged this idea in Silicon Valley that actually, lying was more profitable than truthtelling.

As someone who's trusting, I do sort of listen to Altman or Amodei (who I think has been a bit more truthful in his predictions, a year from AI writing all software actually ended up being more truthful than I think people though, even if it isn't technically true) and like have this nagging voice in the back of my head that these people know something I don't, but then, just looking at this clear leadership trend seeming to suggest that lying is more profitable than trying to tell the truth, and the whole picture definitely does not look clear.