Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions
Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions
Sam Altman, best known as the CEO of OpenAI, is also chairman of a nuclear power company called Oklo, which has just gone public through a SPAC.
I do not trust this man to do anything in my best interest. He is a disingenuous and untrustworthy messenger, and if allowed to continue unchecked will end up the overlord of a new hyper-capitalist dystopian nightmare. I’m genuinely afraid of this guy and people like him.
I’ll remind folks that this is a man with such appalling hubris that he thinks he should be able to raise trillions of dollars to make his own fantasies come true.
I would never trust someone who surrounds themselves with the people Altman surrounds himself with. I always got bad vibes from Musk because he was close to people like Peter Thiel and it's the same with Altman.
His crypto scheme was already raising eyebrows. When OpenAI board attempted a coup and he clawed back to his seat, it seemed like he had gained complete control over the place.
The dude really gave off Stephen Holstrom from Pantheon vibes. (Even if they made him look like Steve Jobs)
And an outspoken apocalypse doomsday prepper. Definitely the kind of ideals we want in unilateral control of nuclear power plants. This guy can't fuck off sooner and any entity that would back his enterprise is either fucking stupid or blinded by greed.
He can't be worse than the ones that are already our overlords. At least he could theoretically free us from slaving our lives away. Probably won't, but could...
Are you serious? AI is about lowering the cost of labor for office workers by not needing junior talent. None of these billionaires are going to free you from slaving your life away.
Yeah I hear you, but I think that’s actually a big part of the problem. We the plebs want AI to free us from slaving away our lives. But Altman and those like him will never have the same motivations as us, so I’ll never trust them to develop the technology in a responsible way that actually benefits the majority of people, not just the tippy top of the absurdly wealthy.
He can't be worse than the ones that are already our overlords.
Pretty much all of human history would like a word.
Not a single chance that will happen.
So he named his company after the world's only natural nuclear reactor in Oklo
Am I the only one who gets tired of having search results (which are already terrible) get even worse when capitalists take names for their products and companies from native languages and locations, making it harder to find information about the pre-existing stuff?
I'm interested in Gabon's natural nuclear reactor, not in some stupid saltman company.
Pshaw, if it's not from the Gabon region of Africa it's just sparkling nuclear reactor
Alls I know is, putting nuclear technology in the hands of a techbro can only work out great for everyone.
When they layoff everyone and leave the place poisoned for millennia, the share price is gonna jump!
This is why the government requires you to have long term finances that can be used to prevent a disaster long term due to financial issues.
I think you make a good case for making energy production a public utility. Private ownership of essential services is ethically bankrupt. The fact that a company can fail and leave people without core services, is disgusting in my opinion. Even more disgusting is that they almost always seek public funds to bail them out.
There are regulations in place, and nuclear power plants do not leave toxic waste around them? They aren't like coal plants that simply dump the waste into the air.
Petition to rename this man to "Ted Faro"
That's a reference I didn't expect. Had to look it up to make sure I knew who he was.
The last thing you want a tech bro to ‘disrupt’ is nuclear power. Nuclear reactors skirting safety regulations are a bad idea.
This guy creeps me out in a modern Zuckerberg way.
This feels like we are on the Fallout timeline. How are we doing if Fallout was rebranded to get the world stuck in the early 00's?
Yeah, cuz that's totally worth it. Nuclear reactors that mostly power laziness, porn addictions or malicious actors. Why don't you work on making the power requirements LESS instead, Sam?
Laziness, porn addiction and maliciousness have been powered by worse energy sources for over a century. But I do agree that power efficiency should be the focus before we go to the "insanely fast scale-up" phase.
I have this great plan. I call it the "final solution"
in the south of France, thinking to himself: “This cannot be possible.”
Rather, thinking of a french, mumbling to himself "Cela ne peut pas être".