In an interview soon after the time of the talk of the $7 trillion fundraise news Sam Altman said that it was just a ludicrous rumor and that he wasn’t trying to do any such thing.
He said that he was playing along with a joke when he said things seeming to acknowledge the reality of the deal.
At the same time, I’m not sure what to make of this, from Sam’s perspective. “Playing along with a joke?” So a non-trivial amount of his public communication is really him just joking, without the audience knowing it? That makes his other communication even harder to trust.
I’m not sure how much I buy the “joke” argument. It’s something I’m used to trolls using as a defense. ”*obviously* I was just joking when I made controversial statement X publicly, and it got a lot of hype.”
I’m having trouble imagining any high-up management or PR strategy signing off on this. ”So, you were just accused of a major scandal. We suggest that you pretend that it’s true for a while. Then after a few weeks or so, tell everyone that you were joking about it.”
Either, Sam altman jokes a bit too much if you are in the memer/redditor mindset you can find a good amount of his tweets to be some form of jokes not to be taken seriously.
But then again I have found people who over-psychoanalyse all his joke tweets to reaching conclusions like “he has severe trauma and salvation fantasy” so I don’t know where to draw the line in reading his tweets but then again since it’s twitter and elon musk is trying to be funny I generally lean with the former.
I think a good amount of joking culture was increased by E/acc memeing their way against AI safety crowd on twitter.
In an interview soon after the time of the talk of the $7 trillion fundraise news Sam Altman said that it was just a ludicrous rumor and that he wasn’t trying to do any such thing.
He said that he was playing along with a joke when he said things seeming to acknowledge the reality of the deal.
That’s interesting to note, thanks!
At the same time, I’m not sure what to make of this, from Sam’s perspective. “Playing along with a joke?” So a non-trivial amount of his public communication is really him just joking, without the audience knowing it? That makes his other communication even harder to trust.
I’m not sure how much I buy the “joke” argument. It’s something I’m used to trolls using as a defense.
”*obviously* I was just joking when I made controversial statement X publicly, and it got a lot of hype.”
I’m having trouble imagining any high-up management or PR strategy signing off on this.
”So, you were just accused of a major scandal. We suggest that you pretend that it’s true for a while. Then after a few weeks or so, tell everyone that you were joking about it.”
Either, Sam altman jokes a bit too much if you are in the memer/redditor mindset you can find a good amount of his tweets to be some form of jokes not to be taken seriously.
But then again I have found people who over-psychoanalyse all his joke tweets to reaching conclusions like “he has severe trauma and salvation fantasy” so I don’t know where to draw the line in reading his tweets but then again since it’s twitter and elon musk is trying to be funny I generally lean with the former.
I think a good amount of joking culture was increased by E/acc memeing their way against AI safety crowd on twitter.