“The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales” by Zvi

This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.

In each of them, OpenAI or Sam Altman attempt to hide the central thing going on.

First, in Three Observations, Sam Altman's essay pitches our glorious AI future while attempting to pretend the downsides and dangers don’t exist in some places, and in others admitting we’re not going to like those downsides and dangers but he's not about to let that stop him. He's going to transform the world whether we like it or not.

Second, we have Frog and Toad, or There Is No Plan, where OpenAI reveals that its plan for ensuring AIs complement humans rather than AIs substituting for humans is to treat this as a ‘design choice.’ They can simply not design AIs that will be substitutes. Except of course this is Obvious Nonsense in context, with all the talk of remote workers, and [...]

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Outline:

(01:52) Three Observations

(11:38) Frog and Toad (or There Is No Plan)

(18:45) A Trade Offer Has Arrived

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First published:
February 14th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/drHsruvnkCYweMJp7/the-mask-comes-off-a-trio-of-tales

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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