[oefrha]

Which is a good thing. Self-serving motives are more reliable than altruistic ones.

[intended]

The world runs on incentives. Altruism/Self-serving are down stream of that.

Wikipedia is altruistic, and serves humanity quite well.

[theturtletalks]

Open-source is also altruistic. If DeepSeek does become self-serving once they get the top spot, it doesn’t take away from the altruistic contributions that they made towards open models.

[brookst]

And ultimately the motivation for those contributions just doesn’t matter, except to those who like to anthropomorphize company and argue about their souls.

[nubg]

Very interesting take

[broodbucket]

Look at how far OpenAI has drifted from their original mission. Everything comes back to greed, so it's ideal for the world if selfish motives happen to coincide with what's good for the world, like advancements in open models

[roenxi]

It's a standard take since it is how markets tend to work. They aren't powered by altruism, it is a big system for turning greed into good results. We don't have all this stuff because people suddenly woke up one morning and decided to be nice.

[breezybottom]

Yes but there's more to the world than markets.

[AlecSchueler]

Isn't it the entire basis of capitalism?

[lelanthran]

I don't understand what is interesting about it: it's the default.

Markets don't run on altruism.

[woctordho]

And humans don't run on markets.

[FooBarWidget]

The standard is applied very inconsistently. Nobody accuses the local bakery of being motivated by profit, and that they don't bake bread for you out of altruism.

[amelius]

You mean more predictable, not more reliable.

[rrvsh]

Could you explain? (asking in good faith)

[IshKebab]

I don't think so. I can confidently predict that altruism will give you a very unreliable income stream in the vast majority of cases.