Irrelevant metaphor. On what basis has Altman/OpenAI earned the distrust of so many in the HN comments? All I seem to find are speculation about the future and what reads a lot like petty jealousy. Where is the evidence of the lions on the prowl? Surely we should insist on a gazelle corpse or at least some paw prints before declaring an emergency and going on a lion hunt.
> On what basis has Altman/OpenAI earned the distrust of so many in the HN comments? All I seem to find are speculation about the future and what reads a lot like petty jealousy.
Genuine question, do you care to know? Or are you only asking this question as a prelude to delivering insult?
When you ask why people believe X in one breath and then suggest it's because of "petty jealousy" in the next, you'll succeed at conveying your dim view of them but fail to create a conversation where it is possible for you to learn something about why people think that way.
Jealousy is a particularly slippery hypothesis because it is fully generalizable. You can explain any criticism of anybody as jealousy. It is my observation that people often accuse others of jealousy when they want to dismiss a perspective. In that way, it functions less as an explanation than as a defense mechanism; an escape hatch from the uncomfortable feeling of simultaneously disagreeing with someone and acknowledging that there perspective might not be meritless.
