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‘Some bad things’ may happen to you, but that’s a sacrifice Sam Altman is willing to make (pivot-to-ai.com)
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‘in the meantime, uh, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLoCXTSRJc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261006-but-thats-a-sacrifice-sam-altman-is-willing-to-make - podcast

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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

That 2015 quote was a real stinger. Literally the future-tense version of "we destroyed the world but think of all the shareholder value we created along the way!"

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