alt Hacker NewsThe more I live the more I believe people at the top operated in some sort of cult mentality. The level of gullibleness, temporary lack of critical thinking is only matched by their sociopathy and Machiavellianism.
I'm sure it's a great big model, but the level of hype and dishonesty is something out of Sam Altman's book.
Of course it's because of the upcoming IPO, but that's the end game, for now it's critical to get those private equity guys and bank institutions to believe the gospel and hold the bag, only then the suckers from the secondary markets will be allowed to be suckers too.
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There's a serious problem with being very popular/prominent/powerful and becoming surrounded by sycophants out of a sort of survival of the fittest and then developing a progressively more distorted view of reality as a result. When everything can appear to be made to work to the person at the center they start making progressively worse decisions which are consequence free because of the sway they already have. (this is a big reason why "disruptor" startups work)
Will you eat your words when major vuln disclosures come out 3-4 months from now?
Need to dump the bag on retail investors and pensions before they implode
Or, you're wrong. And the smartest AI Research Scientists and the top banking officials are both correctly worried about the ramifications. That's what you'd expect if there really was an issue here. Are you aware of the deep seated bugs in critical software that were already uncovered with Mythos? Are you able to steelman the issue here at all?
A good percentage of cybersecurity has always been theater. If their model helps to separate the wheat from the chaff, maybe it'll be an improvement.