It's weird to hear Sam Altman call the employees of OpenAI 'missionaries' based on their intense policies that seem determined to control how people think and act.

Imagine if in 2001 Google had said "I'm sorry, I can't let you search that" if you were looking up information on medical symptoms, or doing searches related to drugs, or searching for porn, or searching for Disney themed artwork.

It's hard for me to see anyone with such a strong totalitarian control over how their technology can be used as a good guy.

This is a bad year to talk about missions and ideologies. Just take the money and run

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WrTKZKG7Ahc -- I would probably take Ari Emanuel's word on this one

Zuck poaches AI devs and places them under Wang - how does that work? Wang doesn’t make impression of being a brilliant researcher or coder just a great deal maker (to put it diplomatically).

'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'

And hypocrites will never stop whining

What’s the profile of these talents like? And what are the skills that are most highly sought after?

Is it the researchers or the system engineers that scale the prototypes? Or other skills/expertise?

What drama. Hype it up. Make the bubble bigger.

If Sam Altman is upset, he should look in the mirror for making his people work so many hours. They didn't leave because of the pay.

There is a fairly strong scientific/historical argument that suggests neither mercenaries nor missionaries have had made any significant contribution to the outcome of any important human conflict or endeavour. Rather microscopic life is in control, and we are keen to rationalize the outcomes into stories of human heroes and villians.

Therefore, wish for the army with the best immune system.

In other words, we should probably be asking what viral/bacterial content is transferred in these employee trades and who mates with who. This information is probaly as important to the outcome as the notions of "AGI" swirling around.

In a for-profit system, literally everybody is a mercenary. Thoughts, prayers, and vibes don't put food on my table or pay my bills and compute expenses.