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_zoltan_today at 12:33 PM4 repliesview on HN

Worse? There is nothing wrong with wanting 1B. Anybody who said they wouldn't want it is lying.


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sumenotoday at 2:34 PM

I would be a billionaire for about 5 minutes because I'd spend 95% of it making the lives of others better and still have enough left over that neither me nor any of my immediate family ever has to work again instead of hoarding it like the monsters who end up actually having a billion dollars.

jestersontoday at 12:43 PM

I wouldn’t want. I have enough. Not everyone is wanting money.

But it is not the point. The point is, when you take high moral ground and talk about bug problems to help humanity, and then your own diary exposes you as avaricious simpleton, the whole high moral ground crumbles. And you expose yourself as another grifter.

That’s what happened to Brockman. Although smart people could see these qualities in altman, brockman etcetera way before that happened

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exfalsotoday at 12:39 PM

Nonsense. What the hell would you do with 1B? Give it to charities maybe. Maybe set up an investment where dividends are paid to charity. Running out of ideas

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nativeittoday at 2:19 PM

That level of personal wealth is inherently immoral and doesn’t *ever* happen without exploitation.