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> I felt Demis Hassabis was trustworthy in a way Sam Altman couldn't be—a true scientist, not a businessman

Not that I think Demis is or is not trustworthy, but I think it’s a bit foolish to believe it would be allowed to matter.

I also don't see why scientists should be more trustworthy than business people.

In theory, one seeks knowledge, the other money.

In practice, people are people and there are probably variance in both camps, but it's easy to see why one would by default trust a business person less

I also don't see why doctors should be more trustworthy than used car sales people.

The opiod epidemic should have taught people that indeed doctors shouldn't be trusted more than any other profession.

your trust scale needs more dynamic range- the sackler fiasco genuinely should have bumped everyone’s trust in doctors a lot, but probably should not have bumped them below supplement peddling minecraft youtubers.

It's already made some difference to how the companies are behaving - Deepmind doing quite a lot of work on protein folding and now protein drug interactions, OpenAI under Altman tying to do the startup max the money raised and user count thing.

> In theory, one seeks knowledge, the other money.

There's nothing wrong with either in my books, especially if you seek money by serving your fellow humans.