Krystal Ball
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pulled not so much out of concerns over safety, but because he dared politically to cross the Trump regime.
And meanwhile, after he did that, then Sam Altman in OpenAI immediately runs up, oh, we'll do it.
Don't worry.
We have no ethics whatsoever.
So I actually think it is true that he is the best of the group.
And that is really, really saying something.
Because listen to how he talks about this, too.
I mean, the content of it is disturbing enough.
But it's also so
cold and so divorced from any kind of humanity.
Like the normal human reaction is horror at what was done and deep upset over the possibility that something that you were involved in creating may have had anything to do with that.
And you get none of that from him whatsoever.
This is the guy that he was at OpenAI.
He was sort of the head of the group that was most concerned about safety.
Then he's concerned that OpenAI isn't taking safety seriously enough.
They go out and start Anthropic.
That's like his origin story.
But it really gives you a window into the psychology of
Of these people who have tremendous power in their hands and who are already tremendously wealthy.
If Anthropic goes public, he's going to be even more wildly wealthy.