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Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

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326 points jhunter1016 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 11:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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cynicalpeace ◴[18 Oct 24 18:48 UTC] No.41882321[source]▶
I'm betting against OpenAI. Sam Altman has proven himself and his company untrustworthy. In long running games, untrustworthy players lose out.

If you disagree, I would argue you have a very sad view of the world, where truth and cooperation are inferior to lies and manipulation.

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KPGv2 ◴[18 Oct 24 20:37 UTC] No.41883261[source]▶
> In long running games, untrustworthy players lose out.

Amazon and Microsoft seem to be doing really well for themselves.

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Barrin92 ◴[18 Oct 24 20:51 UTC] No.41883387[source]▶
Because they're trustworthy. If you buy a package on Amazon or Craigslist, who do you trust to deliver it to your door tomorrow? People love the trope that their neighbor is trustworthy and the evil big company isn't, but in reality it's exactly the other way around. If you buy your heart medication you buy it from Bayer or an indie startup?

Big, long lived companies excel at delivering exactly what they say they are, and people vote with their wallet on this.

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1. KPGv2 ◴[25 Oct 24 14:26 UTC] No.41945606[source]▶
> If you buy a package on Amazon or Craigslist, who do you trust to deliver it to your door tomorrow?

Amazon tracks which small businesses on their platform do decent business and then use that data to create a competing product and crush the original business.

I don't consider that trustworthy even if that thing is delivered to me on time.

> If you buy your heart medication you buy it from Bayer or an indie startup?

I don't trust either. I trust the regulations put in place by our democracy.