Dear Folks,

Many of us have been waiting, and waiting, and WAITING.....

For Sammy-Boy to release the financials behind his OpenAI Scam.

And now?

Are they all in?

And, what do YOU think of OpenAI....now?

Here is Ed to tell us about his deep respect for Sam Altman, and his great Faith in the Slop That Sam Built.....

Enjoy....

This really could NOT have happened to a nicer guy.....Sammy....

Read it and weep, Sam....

Best regards,

Gamma

Oh...Yeah.....

Sam converted NON-PROFIT OpenAI, into....

ANTI-PROFIT OpenAI.

Way to go, Sam!

Sam's stripes will never change.

Before you reply to your own topic, three more times, how many Zitron videos can one forcibly sit through? He’s good, and he knows his stuff, but he’s basically built a career out of being the AI doomsday podcaster. The message is always the same. He’s a one trick pony with a single monetary lens, and if you’ve watched a handful of his videos, you’ve already absorbed the entire thesis.

We know it all already. AI is an unsustainable business model. It’s burning through billions. There is no credible path to monetization that covers the investment and operating costs. OpenAI could easily go bankrupt, while the other three big players are more likely to limp along on thin margins, subsidized by revenue from their adjacent businesses.

It’s all been said. Repeatedly. At this point, every new video feels less like analysis and more like a rerun. The conclusions never change, only the examples do. More of the same messaging is just another spin through the rinse and repeat cycle.

Next.

27 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Oh...Yeah.....

Sam converted NON-PROFIT OpenAI, into....

ANTI-PROFIT OpenAI.

Way to go, Sam!

Sam's stripes will never change.

As for your regular anti Altman posts, they are less informative commentary and read more like emotional meltdown diatribes at this point. The main takeaway is not that OpenAI is in trouble, but that Sam Altman appears to be living rent free in your head.

If there is any actual message buried somewhere in your weekly outbursts, it usually gets lost beneath the theatrical outrage and recycled grievances. You create so many of these topics that it is becoming difficult to tell where legitimate criticism ends and personal obsession begins.

If somebody stumbled across your posting history, they would probably conclude that Altman personally ran over your dog, stole your lunch money, and married your high school sweetheart. The irony is that the person on this forum who seems most emotionally invested in Sam Altman is you. At some point this stops looking like criticism and starts looking like a very peculiar form of fandom expressed entirely through resentment.

7 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

If somebody stumbled across your posting history, they would probably conclude that Altman personally ran over your dog

Your opinions concerging this important Sammy Topic are invaluable to me.

Furthermore, in reply to your observation:

If Sammy COULD run over my dog, then he certainly WOULD.

Yes, Ed harps on about the same topic, and repeats himself, only with slight nuance, at time.

Still, I love Ed.

And so, it is NOT Sammy who I am obsessed with, maybe.

Probably, I am more in love with Ed.

In addition, when this all blows up, I will be able to tell YOU, that I told you so.

Please recall that E. Holmes hoodwinked so many.

Then, they said.....

How could we have known?

This is why I want to make it crystal clear, and say it often, that Sam is leading us into the quicksand of our own ignorance.

What you have stated in your two, overly short, comments, includes many thoughts that I share with you.

Maybe you are actually NOT 19yo, afterall.....

You are still missing the point entirely. I am not arguing about whether OpenAI succeeds, fails, explodes, implodes, or gets exposed as the next Theranos. That has nothing to do with my comment.

I have watched the same analyses, read the same criticisms, and understand the same risks you do. The difference is that I do not feel the need to start a new topic about Sam Altman every time he farts. If OpenAI collapses tomorrow, my reaction will be, “Interesting.” Your reaction will be, “At last, my life’s work is complete.”

The point is that you have been posting essentially the same Sam Altman topic for months now. Every development, every rumor, every article, every YouTube video somehow becomes another chapter in the same endless sermon. The fact that you genuinely believe you are warning humanity does not make it any less repetitive.

The amusing part is that your defense amounts to, “Yes, I keep talking about him, but I have a good reason.” That is exactly what every obsessed person says.

If Sam Altman were to disappear tomorrow, I suspect there would be a noticeable hole in your weekly posting schedule. Frankly, I am no longer sure whether you are trying to save the world from Sam Altman or save Sam Altman from being forgotten.

37 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

You are still missing the point entirely. I am not arguing about whether OpenAI succeeds, fails, explodes, implodes, or gets exposed as the next Theranos. That has nothing to do with my comment.

I have watched the same analyses, read the same criticisms, and understand the same risks you do. The difference is that I do not feel the need to start a new topic about Sam Altman every time he farts.

Please believe me.

I have not missed your point.

Your point is well taken.

I am unable to say that I do not disagree with your point.

In addition, I value your informed, incisive, and imaginary critiques of my many Topics.

Your analyses are always welcome.

I read them all.

Thank you.

2 hours ago, BilllyGOAT said:

Before you reply to your own topic, three more times, how many Zitron videos can one forcibly sit through?

Let us ask a better question: When will OpenAI implode? Which means, how much longer will Trump's gov continue to prop up this house of cards?

Also, I can only presume that Ed will discontinue lambasting Sam when Sam is no more....figuratively speaking.

Altman continues along the same path. And, therefore, it is really unsurprising that Ed should continue to record the misdoings of Altman.

If Altman were to step down, or if he were to suddenly BECOME HONEST, which would be totally against his very nature, then Ed's tune would change, accordingly, obviously.

Maybe it might help you to think of Ed as a modern muckraker?

Muckrakers are tiresome, we know.

Yet, muckraking is a dirty job, and SOMEBODY has to do it.

Ed tries to be as un-boring as he possibly can.

This is not so easy when the reality and the message does not change, and cannot change.

You are correct that I do not listen to Ed quite as much as I once did, simply because I know that Altman has not, nor will not, change.

Today's message is a bit different, this time, since there seems to be a bit of new info to be hashed through.

By the way: Are you selling, or will you sell, OpenAI and Sam short?

Altman never should have been the head of OpenAI. He is a total grifter.

53 minutes ago, TedG said:

Altman never should have been the head of OpenAI. He is a total grifter.

And, very soon, Elon will have the last laugh.

This, I gotta see.

It keeps me ticking, and I must live to see the day.

3 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Please believe me.

I have not missed your point.

Your point is well taken.

I am unable to say that I do not disagree with your point.

In addition, I value your informed, incisive, and imaginary critiques of my many Topics.

Your analyses are always welcome.

I read them all.

Thank you.

Thank you. 👍🏼✌🏼

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Let us ask a better question: When will OpenAI implode? Which means, how much longer will Trump's gov continue to prop up this house of cards?

Also, I can only presume that Ed will discontinue lambasting Sam when Sam is no more....figuratively speaking.

Altman continues along the same path. And, therefore, it is really unsurprising that Ed should continue to record the misdoings of Altman.

If Altman were to step down, or if he were to suddenly BECOME HONEST, which would be totally against his very nature, then Ed's tune would change, accordingly, obviously.

Maybe it might help you to think of Ed as a modern muckraker?

Muckrakers are tiresome, we know.

Yet, muckraking is a dirty job, and SOMEBODY has to do it.

Ed tries to be as un-boring as he possibly can.

This is not so easy when the reality and the message does not change, and cannot change.

You are correct that I do not listen to Ed quite as much as I once did, simply because I know that Altman has not, nor will not, change.

Today's message is a bit different, this time, since there seems to be a bit of new info to be hashed through.

By the way: Are you selling, or will you sell, OpenAI and Sam short?

As I said, Zitron is fine, but he’s very one dimensional as I already pointed out. More importantly, the issues he focuses on do not address the full spectrum of concerns surrounding AI. He is primarily fixated on Altman, which seems to align with your own preoccupation with Altman’s lies and potential downfall. That, I suspect, is why you place so much importance on Zitron. He reinforces your fixation on Altman, but that does not make him as significant as you portray him.

I do not share that fixation, nor do I think Altman is all that important at this stage. Frankly, Altman is no longer the central issue. Whether Zitron continues shouting from the mountaintops about him is unlikely to alter any of the major outcomes one way or another. He is a critic, and sometimes a useful one, but criticism alone is not a solution.

What concerns me is the bigger picture: the functional obsolescence of jobs, the risks of AI controlling dangerous systems and weapons, the concentration of power, and the broader societal consequences that could emerge as these technologies become more capable. I cannot hyperfocus on a single individual when he has become only a small piece of a much larger puzzle.

For that reason, I would rather listen to people who take a broader view of the situation and spend more time examining what is actually at stake. Eric Schmidt, Roman Yampolskiy, Scott Galloway, Tristan Harris, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton all offer perspectives that I find considerably more valuable than Zitron. If you are genuinely interested in the future of AI beyond your fixation on Altman, I would suggest seeking out interviews, lectures, or podcasts featuring those individuals.

What they have to say, and the warnings they are raising about the dangers of AI, strike me as far more significant. By comparison, Zitron seems largely focused on economics, Altman’s shortcomings, and the possibility of OpenAI’s collapse. That is a relatively narrow lens through which to view a challenge as complex and consequential as AI. The future of AI will not be determined by the fate of one executive, and reducing the discussion to Altman risks missing the far larger issues that deserve attention.

1 hour ago, BilllyGOAT said:

He is primarily fixated on Altman, which seems to align with your own preoccupation with Altman’s lies and potential downfall.

I presume that you also fully realize that I was similarly fixated on Elizabeth Holmes, and Bernie Madoff.

In fact, being fixated on scammers is my main hobby in life, other than posting Topics on TV.

Psychopaths have always fascinated me.

Their psychopathy is inexplicable from an evolutionary perspective, or do you not think so?

This psychopathic aberration seems to have no evolutionary advantage.....

Or does it?

Any ideas?

3 hours ago, TedG said:

Altman never should have been the head of OpenAI. He is a total grifter.

No.

But, maybe they should make him the head of the CIA?