Artificial Paranoia

[Michael Bailey]

Wait - in a former mayonnaise factory?


(“How much do you know of La Mayonnaise?” she inquired. He shrugged. “Maybe
up to the part that goes ‘Aux armes, citoyens’—” But she was frowning,
earnest as he had seldom seen her. “La Mayonnaise,” Pléiade explained, “has
its origins in the moral squalor of the court of Louis XV—here in Belgium
the affinity should not be too surprising. The courts of Leopold and Louis
are not that different except in time, and what is time? Both monumentally
deluded men, maintaining their power through oppression of ….” etc)

Louis XV, Leopold, Open AI/Altman
Moral squalor - check
Monumental delusion - check
Mayonnaise - check
Moral equivalency - check



On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 9:22 AM jody2.718 via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
wrote:

> From the lead article in the NT Times today about the inside story of the
> aborted dismissal of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI:
>
> "The board dialed into a call that afternoon to talk to about 15 OpenAI
> executives, who crowded into a conference room at the company’s offices in
> a former mayonnaise factory in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood."
>
> It would be nice if the NYT took down their pay wall, at least through the
> next election cycle. If their in depth reporting were more accessible to
> the public, it might help Against the Possibility of a truly horrible
> outcome.
>
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