It is extremely likely based on your point above that their investor meetings have gone completely nuts. There has to be so many funds offered at the door right now its ridiculous, people trying very hard to get in. Doordash isn't profitable, it runs off of investor funds on a future return. It honestly could stay free because it's an infinite flow of data coming into their coffers.

Sam Altman is on record saying "We have a soft promise to our investors that one day when we create AGI or something close to it we will ask it to help us monetize and pay investors back".

We all pretend the ending doesn't exist. An AI will be able to re-generate the movie in the near future with better acting plots and subplots with a satisfying ending.

Every day we march towards the movie "Her".

Really good podcast on this subject that's right up your alley just came out 2 days ago.

https://youtu.be/5Gk9gIpGvSE

Lomborg was also just on the JRE to discuss the same thing.

He points out simple things like "Fracking is obviously not ideal, but it's less damaging than coal and is the fastest way to get people off of coal." Paraphrasing exactly what he said, but it is a stepping stone to lower emissions despite the net damage it may do, it is less than the net damage of coal plants.

I'm more of the mind of someone like Randal Carlson. Sure we may have an effect on the environment but an asteroid is far more likely to destroy the earth's environment.

The over-all assertion is that it is far better to invest in tech breakthroughs related to emissions and energy generation than it is to do a lot of the measures prescribed by the authorities that be on this subject. "We're wasting trillions of dollars for solutions that may only net a small benefit."