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toofy • yesterday at 12:23 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

>… and careful, time-consuming planning …

without snark, how can we do this if these people are obsessed with:

a) move fast and break things and externalize the costs to those who have nothing to do with their company

and

b) beta testing their products on the public when the public hasn’t agreed to be beta tested on…


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digitaltrees • yesterday at 3:38 AM

We remove the limited liability protection of a corporate entity. Make them operate as a partnership so all executives and equity holders are personally liable for the debts of the firm and make them post a bond to backstop financial damage caused by their agents and customers use of the agents. Thats how Goldman Sachs and other investment banks were required to operate until the deregulation push that resulted in the 2008 financial crisis. The same theory holds, if people respond to incentives and you want to incentives safe behavior make them responsible for their actions. People forget that the corporate entity was created to incentivize risky activity like sailing a boat across the world to get spices when half never returned. Some valuable economic activity won't be done without limited liability protection so society created a mechanism to promote that activity. We've gone too far.

0xDEAFBEAD • yesterday at 12:26 AM

That's exactly the problem? He's saying the culture at OpenAI needs to change.

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chrisjj • yesterday at 8:31 AM

How? Remove those people.

intended • yesterday at 7:38 AM

Pretty much the crux of the issue.

In America I guess the options are to sue ? somehow? Or to talk to legislatures and build the understanding and social contract that needs to be iterated on.

Which would in turn need to deal with the investors who want their returns, however since the leaders of these firms are asking for a pause, and a refree maybe it won't be that hard?