I think the motivation for someone like Altman is not AGI, it's power and influe...

hu3 · 2025-10-21T22:27:36 1761085656

Yep, he just wants to become too big to fail at this point.

I view OpenAI like a pyramid scheme: taking in increasing amounts of money to pursuit ever growing promisses that can be dangled like a carrot to the next investor.

If you owe investors $100 million, that's your problem. If you owe investors $100 billion, that's their problem.

AbstractH24 · 2025-10-22T15:57:15 1761148635

Who else pursued this strategy in the dot-com bubble and failed to the point of going under?

I'm old enough to remember it, but young enough not to remember it well.