It is reasonable from his point of view - you guys sink the capital, I will have more compute. And if it doesn't work out and orders stop coming in then well that's not my problem, is it?
If he wants to actually accomplish his objectives, he needs to get inside the minds of the executives that run these companies. Empathize with their concerns and then develop a strategy for walking them towards a path to build even one additional factory.
Throwing out a cartoonish figure and then hoping to be taken seriously is not something I'd expect from the CEO of something so adjacent.
I think OAI and especially sama as its CEO are crossing the point of being significant in their own right, and as old talent moves out of OAI we may start to hear increasingly crazy stuff coming from them. They're just becoming brands to put over the machinations of some VCs, hyperscalers and big techs.
You say that, but to me the Americans have a stereotype of making outrageous demands and then getting big wins because sometimes people say yes. And if he doesn't ask for what he wants he certainly won't get it.
Empathy is a good practice when managing others and have control over what they do, but in business negotiations it is often productive to just make your wants and budget clear.
It's entertaining when one sees it as sama trying to save OpenAI from massive costs by persuading governments to invest an order more magnitude into compute to artificially distort the actual costs of compute to make OpenAI's costs make sense.
