dschnurr

OpenAI engineer here. Cloning this project and running it locally with your own API key does not violate any policies. However the way this project is configured, publishing it to the web would expose your API key in the client-side source code, which violates our policies since it would allow your account to be compromised.

Sure there will be middlemen trying to profit due to asymmetry of information / technical knowledge. But as technology marches along the barriers to entry of launching new things trends to zero. Smart creators are increasingly harnessing new technologies to cut out existing middlemen. Podcasts are a great example of this, anyone with a microphone can start an entertainment business now and collect money from direct relationships with advertisers.

The creator is almost always the artist. Provenance is what gives NFTs their value. The value of a Beeple NFT minted by a random user is $0.

Some artists choose to attach "perks" to their NFTs – i.e. meet and greets, access to private communities. They could choose not to honor these perks for NFTs held by contracts. They could even choose to re-mint the work if the new owner is doing nefarious things with the old one (though many would see this as a dubious action)

The people receiving royalties are the artists in these cases – instead of the record companies, instagrams, and etsys of the world. I fail to see how this won't be a net positive for wealth equality when we're shifting the advantage to those who have historically been taken advantage of.

Gov-supported digital currencies would mostly streamline things and replace existing bloated and slow programs. Imagine the current stimulus situation – instead of sending checks to people they could just press a button and immediately send credit to all citizens that have a certain account threshold or income rate. Currency units could be earmarked for certain retailers (i.e. food stamps, education, etc).

This is cool! What tech/service are you using to handle accepting payments & paying out to event creators? To my knowledge you can't use stripe for things like this (though maybe I'm wrong)

going public at any point after nov '19 probably would have been a disaster for most employees due to lockup period. Let's say I have $1M of RSUs at IPO – fed+state gov wants 450-500k for taxes total. When I went through Uber IPO they only withheld ~30%, which leads to a $200k tax bill at the end of the year in this scenario. If stock declines 75% due to COVID before I can sell at expiration of lockup period, I'm left with $175k ($700k post-withholding * 25%) and $200k tax bill. Not sure about you but I'd prefer the non-IPO scenario.

> "human genome" sized project to create an accurate physics engine and a chemistry engine

bingo. this would insanely impactful long term.