TO: Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, 3180 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94110
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your AI involvement through OpenAU and ChatGPT, your homepage, blog, Time Cover Story, Twitter, Wikipedia (OpenAI)
Second Communication: IM 15 July 2024
. @sama Hi Sam – We really need a new view of reality. Worldviews do not start with the universe or the first moment. Hypothesize that. What do you come up with?
Here’s my take on it: Dimensionless constants, then Planck natural units: https://81018.com/chart/ Assumes infinitesimal spheres – https://81018.com/spheres/ – and as you can see, base-2 notation. Sphere calculation – https://81018.com/tredecillion and the nature of continuity – https://81018.com/csh/ Thank you. Sincerely, Bruce
First communication: 21 June 2023 at 6:46 PM
@sama I am thinking — https://81018.com/ai/ — that AI may be able to emerge with a programmable ethics if the programming is looped with infinitesimal composites and dimensionless constants like pi (π). I’m struggling with it. First time through — https://81018.com/petition/
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“In 2005, at the age of 19,[5] Altman co-founded Loopt,[6] a location-based social networking mobile application. As CEO, Altman raised more than $30 million in venture capital for the company; however Loopt failed to gain traction with enough users. In 2012, it was acquired by the Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million.[7]
“Altman became a partner at Y Combinator in 2011, initially working there on a part-time basis.[8] In February 2014, Altman was named president of Y Combinator by its co-founder, Paul Graham.[9] In a 2014 blog post, Altman said that the total valuation of Y Combinator companies had surpassed $65 billion, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Zenefits, and Stripe.[10] In September 2016, Altman announced his expanded role as president of YC Group, which included Y Combinator and other units.[11]
“Altman said that he hoped to expand Y Combinator to fund 1,000 new companies per year. He also tried to expand the types of companies funded by YC, especially “hard technology” companies.[12]
“In October 2015, Altman announced YC Continuity, a $700 million equity fund investing in YC companies as they matured.[13] A week earlier, Altman had introduced Y Combinator Research, a non-profit research lab, and donated $10 million to fund it.[14] YC Research has thus far announced research on basic income, the future of computing, education, and building new cities.[15]
“In March 2019, YC announced Altman’s transition from president of the company to a less hands-on role Chairman of the Board, in order for him to focus on OpenAI.[16] This decision came shortly after YC announced it would be moving its headquarters to San Francisco.[17] As of early 2020, he is no longer affiliated with YC.”
OpenAI
“By 2020, Sam Altman had left Y Combinator to focus full-time on OpenAI as CEO.[1] OpenAI was initially funded by Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Infosys, and YC Research. When OpenAI launched in 2015, it had raised $1 billion.[18]
“Altman was the CEO of Reddit for eight days in 2014 after CEO Yishan Wong resigned.[19] He announced the return of Steve Huffman as CEO on July 10, 2015.[20]“
“Altman co-founded Tools For Humanity in 2019,[21] a company building a global iris-based biometric system using cryptocurrency, called Worldcoin. Worldcoin’s aim is to provide a reliable way to authenticate humans online,[22] to counter bots and fake virtual identities facilitated by artificial intelligence. Using a distribution mechanism for its cryptocurrency similar to UBI, Worldcoin attempts to incentivize users[23] to join its network by getting their iris scanned using Worldcoin’s orb-shaped iris scanner.[24]
“In April 2022, a report[25] from MIT Technology Review highlighted Worldcoin’s controversial practices in low-income countries, citing that Worldcoin takes advantage of impoverished people to grow its network.
“In May 2023, TechCrunch reported that hackers had been able to steal login credentials of several of Worldcoin’s iris-scanning operator devices.[26]
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