> fable is a world ending event

Did anyone actually say this?

Mostly what I have seen is people saying "hey at some point these models might get dangerous." And the type of HN commenter who mistakes blind cynicism for wisdom laughs that off as marketing. And now when (some) worries appear to come true, somehow having previously expressed those worries is not being proved right, but in fact discrediting, because it was "crying wolf."

> simultaneously spinning down expenses

Unless OpenAI is renting their compute to others, spinning down RL training doesn't save them any money.