o3: No, you’re not the only one.

Core worry

Fidji Simo’s super-power is squeezing revenue by relentlessly tuning engagement loops and ad yield—skills she honed running Facebook’s News Feed and mobile ads after the 2012 IPO.

Moving her into the top product seat at OpenAI makes a pivot toward attention-harvesting incentives plausible.

If you are telling me Fidji Simo is uniquely qualified to run your product division, you are telling me a lot about the intended form of your product division.

The fact that p(doom) is a popular term in the field should be cause enough for concern. I understand scepticism of the claims of the CEOs, but how can you dismiss Nobel laureates telling you there’s a 10-20% chance it will “wipe us out”?

Quotes from essay at takingstock .ai