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So maybe amounts loose their meaning when they become really big. And maybe this is a bit of: Hi mom. Will you invest 10 USD in my startup valued at 7 T USD. I am making an electronic god.

But 7 T usd is about 1/3 of the US GDP. That is another way of saying the value of 100 million Americans working for a full year.

It is really ridicolous.

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sama thinks OpenAI will "capture the light cone of all future value in the universe" so betting now on 1/3 of US GDP is probably in his mind actually very conservative.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/18/sam-altmans-leap-of-faith/

I consider Altman to be a salesperson. Had his orb cryptocurrency project taken off instead of OpenAI then I imagine he would be touring the world with similar silly statements about the orb.

What I find amazing is that this stuff sells even though it is way beyond common sense and I am sure in couple of years will be subject to ridicule.

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