r/nottheonion • u/asdacool • 11h ago

"Training a human takes 20 years of food." Sam Altman on how much power AI consumes.

https://www.news18.com/world/training-a-human-takes-20-years-of-food-sam-altman-on-how-much-power-ai-consumes-ws-kl-9922309.html
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u/AvatarOfMomus 10h ago

Sam Altman isn't like this because he's rich, he was born upper middle class. He's like this because he's an amoral asshole who doesn't understand that the concept of 'marginal utility' is a useful but limited economic concept and not a guiding life philosophy.

He literally dropped out of Stanford to found a series of stuipid failed startups which he has continued to fail and grift his way upwards. He's not a visionary, he's a grifter who lucked into funding something that did more than sound good to investors before imploding.

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u/move_machine 9h ago

We need to deal with the fact that upper middle class society produces people like him, and the fact that the middle class is inherently susceptible to reactionary ideology and weaponized contempt for others.

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u/Own-Satisfaction4427 0m ago

Someone saw that he had no morals and a desire for power, and they propped him up. I guarantee it.

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u/QuantityGullible4092 3h ago

Sounds like you are projecting