I'm glad to see he made that request, even from jail. Expressing magnanimity is a bit of freedom, in and of itself.

Reiser's seeking eventual parole.

He may be expressing magnanimity, but a smart psychopath in his situation would act similarly, given the incentives involved.

One smart and controlled enough to do that probably won't kill anyone else at least, I guess?

No. Prison exists for incapacitation. It is to protect society from miscreants. If punishment and/or rehabilitation occurs, that is nice, but it is not it's purpose.

To clarify, and to make it easier for anyone who wants to do further reading, I'll note that being in prison is punishment, and the purposes of punishment are variously deemed to be retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation.

(And prison only as incapacitation doesn't really make any sense given that prison terms differ based on the crime.)

Prisons have a variety of purposes, depending on who you ask.

Are you making a specific distinction between prisons and penitentiaries?

I've never ever wanted a Macbook, but I'm ok with an iPad Pro.

It's a bit easy to understand that in the context of gravity, because gravity bends light down. If you shine a flashlight on Earth, that light is in free-fall, bending down. Time follows the same path, because the speed of light is fixed.

At the very least Sbazo.

There shouldn't be much controversy over fixing pandemic-era over hiring. But that's just the public-facing rationale. Betting more heavily on AI tech might be the real reason.

You should fix overhiring by firing the people that overhired. That never happens though because there's no accountability in leadership in any major tech company.

I wonder if this move is sound. Granted, inflation of consumer products hasn't died down, so they are getting choosier in how they spend, affecting Google's advertising revenue. So Google is betting more heavily on AI as a potential vehicle for revenue. But will the current AI tech really prove so disruptive, with high pricing?

I wasn't there; I was in college at that time, but I remember the attitude from military magazines, radio, etc. Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait were seen as universally guilty of "raping" Kuwait, and any who died deserved his punishment.

Me too, though I don't remember getting a key/coin holder with the disk. Strange to think of me indirectly buying peppermint schnapps at that time.

This suggests that a real schism is occurring at OpenAI. I anticipate hearing of two different philosophies at play.

It would be interesting if Altman and Brockman, assuming that they want accelerated development, ended up in some high level roles at Microsoft. That seems like a win-win-win all the way around since OpenAI could follow their new path, Microsoft and Google could build new things fast, and the open model proponents can keep up their good work.

Except for a clumsy fast press release, this doesn’t really have to end badly for anyone.

Even though I have been an OpenAI fan every since I used their earliest public APIs, I am also very happpy that there is such a rich ecosystem, other commercial players like Anthropic, open model support from Meta and Hugging Face, and the increasingly wonderful small models like Mistral that can be easily run at home.

Sam Altman is not the kind of person that goes into a bigco management job. He'll be doing another startup come Monday.

Yes. I changed my perspective - Altman would not fit in and be happy at Microsoft.

It seems like your first opinion was correct.

Sam and those that want to continue stealing ip and destroying entire industries in the process will leave, while ethical machine learning scientists will remain.