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these types of strategic decisions along with endless safety blogs and lack of shipping have made me very bearish openai lately despite their super high talent concentration

what's your take on their direction?

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They have $3B+ in subscription revenue, so they have some wiggle room (may be even higher now).

But seems like Zuck is determined to scorch earth foundational model value with open source. Also their partnership with Apple seems tenuous.

I think EV+ is they end up making it through, but going to be challenging given all of the incumbents have pivoted hard into AI and they have pre-existing, default disitribution.

I lose trust to sama decisions regarding safety measures. It feels he is driven to by competitiveness, its pressing the whole world to catch up building AGI infinitely raising the probability of a critical mistake. the consequences limited only by imagination (depends on the point in time when the mistake unfolds)