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What? Are you implying this happened here? Or just being weird?

by wilg 3y ago

talldatethrow 3y ago
https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/1635704398939832321 https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/163570439893983232...
- wilg 3y ago
  How is that relevant to the specific things the person I was replying to said?
  - kiririn 3y ago
    Genuinely: how is it not relevant? Posted quite some time ago sure, but paints an interesting picture and the first I've heard of it
    - wilg 3y ago
      What? Because it has nothing to do with "getting drunk and molesting an intern or tossing out racial slurs at say, some important person at a giant japanese company".
      - kristopolous 3y ago
        Also I made no claim of anything, just that dismissal can happen for a large variety of reasons. The Arcimoto CEO, for instance, was let go because he couldn't hold his liquor and got a DUI. Brendan Eich got booted from Mozilla for having a political ideology that Mozilla considered a liability. All kinds of reasons. The biggest risk for OpenAI is the public perception that the discretion of ChatGPT can not be trusted. If the CEO is caught using poor discretion, the public will transfer that property to the company's products. For instance, if Tesla could fire Elon Musk, I'm sure they would have by now.
        wilg 3y ago
        That's fine, I was just asking if you were implying particular knowledge about things that happened, because it kinda sounded like it.
        kristopolous 3y ago
        My information here is exactly 0.
  - brvsft 3y ago
    The implication is that this could be the 'unrelated reason', that he lied to the board about sexually assaulting his sister/step-sister/whatever. Of course, I'm not sure who Annie Altman is or how exactly she is related to Sam or if the allegations are true.
dplavery92 3y ago
I don't think anyone in this thread knows what happened, but since we're in a thread speculating why the CEO of the leading AI company was suddenly sacked, the possibility of an unacceptable interpersonal scandal isn't any more outlandish than others' suggestions of fraud, legal trouble for OpenAI, or foundering financials. The suggestion here is simply that Altman having done something "big and dangerous" is not a foregone conclusion. In the words of Brandt, "well, Dude, we just don't know."
kristopolous 3y ago
No. I'm saying that there's nothing that can be said about these things until information comes forward. It could be business related, finance, personal, whatever. If you need evidence that this is sufficient for dismissal, merely stating that impropriety exists is apparently enough to get my first flag on hn after 12 years.

What? Are you implying this happened here? Or just being weird?

by wilg 3y ago

What? Are you implying this happened here? Or just being weird?

https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/1635704398939832321 https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/163570439893983232...

wilg 3y ago
How is that relevant to the specific things the person I was replying to said?
- kiririn 3y ago
  Genuinely: how is it not relevant? Posted quite some time ago sure, but paints an interesting picture and the first I've heard of it
  - wilg 3y ago
    What? Because it has nothing to do with "getting drunk and molesting an intern or tossing out racial slurs at say, some important person at a giant japanese company".
    - kristopolous 3y ago
      Also I made no claim of anything, just that dismissal can happen for a large variety of reasons. The Arcimoto CEO, for instance, was let go because he couldn't hold his liquor and got a DUI. Brendan Eich got booted from Mozilla for having a political ideology that Mozilla considered a liability. All kinds of reasons. The biggest risk for OpenAI is the public perception that the discretion of ChatGPT can not be trusted. If the CEO is caught using poor discretion, the public will transfer that property to the company's products. For instance, if Tesla could fire Elon Musk, I'm sure they would have by now.
      - wilg 3y ago
        That's fine, I was just asking if you were implying particular knowledge about things that happened, because it kinda sounded like it.
        kristopolous 3y ago
        My information here is exactly 0.
- brvsft 3y ago
  The implication is that this could be the 'unrelated reason', that he lied to the board about sexually assaulting his sister/step-sister/whatever. Of course, I'm not sure who Annie Altman is or how exactly she is related to Sam or if the allegations are true.

dplavery92 3y ago

I don't think anyone in this thread knows what happened, but since we're in a thread speculating why the CEO of the leading AI company was suddenly sacked, the possibility of an unacceptable interpersonal scandal isn't any more outlandish than others' suggestions of fraud, legal trouble for OpenAI, or foundering financials. The suggestion here is simply that Altman having done something "big and dangerous" is not a foregone conclusion. In the words of Brandt, "well, Dude, we just don't know."

kristopolous 3y ago

No. I'm saying that there's nothing that can be said about these things until information comes forward. It could be business related, finance, personal, whatever. If you need evidence that this is sufficient for dismissal, merely stating that impropriety exists is apparently enough to get my first flag on hn after 12 years.