Being rich results in a kind of limitation of scope for ambition. To the sufferer, a person who has everything they could want, there is no other objective worth having. They become eccentric and they pursue more money.
We should have enrichment facilities for these people where they play incremental games and don’t ruin the world like the paperclip maximizers they are.
The dude announces new initiatives from the White House, regularly briefs Senators and senior DoD leaders, and is the top get for interviews around the world for AI topics.
There’s a lot more to be ambitious about than just money.
Maybe he wants to use the money in some nebulous future way, subjugating all people in a way that deals with his childhood trauma or whatever. That’s also something rich people do when they need a hobby aside from gathering more money. It’s not their main goal, except when they run into setbacks.
People are not complicated when they are money hoarders. They might have had hidden depths once, but they are thin furrows in the ground next to the giant piles of money that define them now.
Google/Anthropic are catching up, or already surpassed.
--Gordon Gekko
St. Altman plans to create a corporate god for us dumb schmucks, and he will be it's prophet.
