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meander_wateryesterday at 11:17 PM1 replyview on HN

The OpenAI charter defines it as:

"highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work"

https://time.com/article/2026/08/26/openai-sam-altman-interv...


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fxdtoday at 1:51 AM

So vague it’s useless.

We cannot in a declarative sense define what is economically valuable work even now let alone into the future.

People take what they can get for pay. Very few individuals can demand a wage. The value of employment is obviously designed around that, not some arbitrary definition of “valuable”.

Of course an AI will accept $0/hr, it doesn’t mean it does the job.

Anyone who could accurately define the value of work would be wildly successful without having to try.

That is not a useful definition for me unfortunately.

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