At 600M, if keeping a spine has a risk of slight reduction in that wealth, then the spine is thrown out in a jiffy.

No rich man or woman is a friend of society.

That is why governments fear revolt from the poor. They have nothing more to lose.

That's the thing though, he has $600M dollars worth of reasons to bend.

People think that money makes you strong, maybe it does but only upto like a couple million dollars if at all, well whatever amount will give you a lifetime of comfortable life, after that it's all about how to preserve or make more money.

The more you have the more reason you have to do the wrong thing.

Not having a spine goes a long way when you're trying to make billions.

No he's an automaton optimizing for status

its not actually 600M dollars, just promises and notes

the second he tries to cash out even a fraction of that, it'll start becoming worth less and less

Otherwise suddenly MS is excluded from government contracts (even ones awarded or in progress), justice department will start attacking it etc.

To me, this is a confirmation of how much of a free man I am and how unfree these tech billionaires and CEOs are. Because I can choose to say AI, whereas they seemingly cannot.

I would expect people selling AI to like that term for marketing reasons, completely independent of their opinion of the person who provided a crystallization point to organize the terminology change around.

You assume he’s a human and not a super intelligent being himself

He has to keep The Orange House happy.

Super Intelligence is a term of art that has been around for a few decades now. Nick Bostrom gave a the canonical definition for it almost 30 years ago. Super Intelligence is more relevant to the concerns articulated in this article than AI which is rather broad in its purview. Maybe this is Trump stuff? I don't know. If it were something stupid like Freedom Intelligence then I'd be pretty annoyed, but there is a lot of plausible deniability that Super Intelligence is just a better term for what we're all freaking out about. A world where GPT 4 hits scaling limits and it costs $500 a month to run is definitely AI but none of the catastrophes emerge at that level of intelligence. That would actually be a pretty sweet world. But now we get to have our whole civilization ground up into dust by super intelligence instead.

600M is not that much actually, just three proper celebrity houses in LA or sth… he’s still poor-man to run a trillion dollar company. SteveB had better deal out that responsibility.

Actual Indians > Super Indians

He wouldn't have this net worth if he ever had a spine. Mind you, he's very tough to people under him, and that's a very important characteristic of this kind of people, but he really doesn't have a spine.

the spine here is going with a deeply unpopular guy's dumb opinions and getting the hate mail

His own net worth isn’t the point.

Bend the knee or Trump will destroy your company. And every Republican in Congress is cool with that.

I don't quite see the problem here.

My AI is regularly solving master's thesis level, and sometimes Ph.D thesis level problems for the purpose of, e.g. routine tasks like filling out random paperwork.

It's been very odd.

I'd only assume Nadella has access to more advanced models than I do, just as much as I have more advanced models than my relatives.

No change there.

Didn't someone vibe code Photoshop this week?

Maybe I am living in a bubble, but no company I have worked at in the past 15 years has cared in the least about either Windows or Office.

Basis - in short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uwfOWYchpI

Rich people in general have this belief, that they somehow got there by objective means and via their superior intellect. I just watched an interview the other day that someone posted where Sam Altman described using a notebook (yes literally pencil and paper) but was describing it as if he had discovered fire. These people are literally blinded by their money.

Because it's creepy and Orwellian, not to mention hypocritical (MAGA is supposed to hate thought policing). Do you like people telling you what words you can and cannot use?

Because literally one person came up with that term, just to put their own stamp on it.

Microsoft didn't invent either of those concepts. They are long standing security principles. Especially least privilege.