Comment Re:Altman vs Musk (Score 2) 56
Altman is only just getting started , he reminds me of Theil and Zuckerberg, they are not wired right and rarely seem happy or laughing. They appear to only have one mission, profit on societal decline, they are not making the world a better place.
Musk for all his oddness and outrage appears to have done more for channelling capital into our technical evolution, and that might make the world a better place. He might be our Howard Hughes. He also appears to live relatively humbly and gets his hands dirty with the work. His vision at least involves somebody more than himself, though he might be planning to rename Mars , "Musk" and populate it with his kids
Musk appears very single minded, I doubt he has any political conviction, probably doesn't care, its a mean to his end, get more resources for his mission. I worry he might burn the world in the process.
I find it important to remember, they are just men, they wont last forever and their cognition is already starting to drop off with age, that's a fact of life. Any success or status we attribute to them is not something they own, we gave it to them and we'll take it away one day. It's as easy as stopping talking about them.