What a sad path to see such a bright star going down. I guess it’s not a huge su...

giwook · 2026-04-21T03:17:42 1776741462

Welcome to late stage capitalism.

parineum · 2026-04-21T05:21:32 1776748892

I struggle to understand what OpenAI would look like in a counter factual.

harmonic18374 · 2026-04-21T05:41:37 1776750097

Like Anthropic? Due to Altman being a lying psychopath, most of the talent left OpenAI, which is now fighting for its life -- but now they can't claim to have moral high ground or the best researchers anymore; profitability's the only way out remaining to them.

Who knows? It could have always ended up this way anyway. But Altman had a pretty big role in summoning his own competition.

parineum · 2026-04-21T19:46:33 1776800793

First, Anthropic exists in this same "late stage capitalism" environment so it's hard to hold that as a counter factual l.

Second, Anthropic is the company that made a big public PR push to make a stand against the US government only to privately let the NSA use Mythos.

Amodei and Altman aren't much different and neither is Anthropic.

> profitability's the only way out remaining to them.

It's the only way out for either of them. That's the nature of business.