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When you hear him saying it, it's funny.

When you hear this reiterated by employees, who actually believe it, then it's sad. Obviously not in this situation, but I've actually heard this from people. Some of them were even pros. "There is no fool like an educated fool."

[getpokedagain]

This is one of the most fascinating things I've found in the past ten or so years. When did people in general begin to buy into the bullshit spewed by big shots in corporate or really any commercial venture. People at least implicitly understood that the boss just wanted money and would fuck you, nature or his own firmly held beliefs to get it.

People are now shocked when a company cuts a loved product or their boss fires them when someone cheaper comes along.

[a4isms]

Vocational Awe and the Lies We Tell Ourselves (2018):

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-...

HN Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24602956

This has always applied to tech workers.

[swat535]

Since when the employees believed it?

Anyone who has worked at OpenAI or is currently working there has lost all credibility in my eyes. When their dear leader, Sam was "fired", they staged a coup to save their paychecks.

These people are just out there to may a buck and scam people with "AGI" and now that there is plenty of competition and superior models, I'm hearing crickets from them.

All they had going for them was first to market and they managed to damage the brand, lose their top talent, deliver a subpar product and convert a nonprofit into for profit.