The bank:

“Awe, that’s cute!”

What the actual fuck

Oh, right… Well, probably still worth it. This decade is balls anyways.

Wales is still president of the company, and presumably has a continuing financial stake in it.

1.8 gigawatts

Damn… think of what you could do with that much energy! That’s enough to go back in time, shoot Sam Altam before he founds OpenAI, and make it back home with 600 megawatts to spare!

WTF, this dude should be in jail, not Congress…

Whoosh

You can sue for [illegal* thing] or [thing that caused harm to you].

So the devs who’ve had their games forcefully delisted should sue as a class action. Shouldn’t be hard at all to prove they’ve been financially harmed.

The part that boggles me is how this takes so much space in the broad conversation when competitive sports are truly an inconsequential part of existence.

It takes so much space because the amount of energy required to ask the question “should trans women compete in women’s sports” requires exponentially less energy than the amount of energy required to defend a particular answer to that same question.

Conservatives know this, so they’ve made a point of incessantly asking it and others questions like it because that steals focus from more important issues, riles up their own base, and causes liberals to fight with each other.

and you have no other topic to talk about than sport?

I always see someone with this exact same take every time any politician says anything and it’s so dumb, lol

The guy was asked a question about a political topic and he answered it. That doesn’t mean that particular issue is all he thinks about, or that he thinks about it to the exclusion of other topics. If I asked you your stance on trans athletes I’m sure you’d have an opinion too, but I would never assume that’s the only issue you ever talk about.

Look, I think Pete is the same kind of neoliberal Uncle Tom as the rest of the Democratic establishment, but this was just one question he answered in an interview with many questions, and he’s been pretty vocal about Trump and other pressing political issues for like 3 straight election cycles.

Pete! My guy! You are the status quo!

This has sadly been the norm in the tech industry for at least a decade now. The whole eco-system had become so accustomed to quick injections of investment cash, that products/businesses no longer grow organically but instead hit the scene in one huge developing and marketing blitz.

Consider companies like Uber or AirBnB. Their goal was never to make a safe, stable, or even legal product. Their goal was always to be first. Command the largest user base possible in the shortest time possible, then worry about all the details later. Both of those products have had disastrous effects on existing businesses and communities while operating in anti-competetive ways and flaunting existing laws, but so what? They’re popular! Tens of millions of people already use them, and by the time government regulation catches up with that they’re doing it’s already too late. What politician would be brave enough to try and ban a company like Uber? What regulator still has enough power to reign in a company the size of AirBnB?

OpenAI is playing the same game. They don’t care if their product is safe — hell, they don’t even really care if it’s useful, or profitable. They just want to be ubiquitous, because once they achieve that, the rest doesn’t matter.