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Altman's sister's allegations seemed pretty disastrous.
by faitswulff 3y ago
Altman's sister's allegations seemed pretty disastrous.
- sbierwagen 3y ago[flagged]
- jrflowers 3y ago> If people could be fired by being accused of rape decades after the fact by a homeless drug addict then nobody in the world would have a job. This is a good point. Everyone has been accused of rape by a homeless drug addict, it is like taxes in its consistent applicability to every person.
- catchnear4321 3y agoindeed, and everyone was also ceo of a highly successful company until not all that long ago. perhaps not that, but everyone is a multimillionaire, and in the media, and therefore vulnerable to threats. no, that’s not quite right. sama is garbage but so is your argument.
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- smegger001 3y agoLot of famous rich powerful people have been accused of horible things they have never done. Look at all the crazy accusations levied against Bill Gates over the last few years from the alt-right. Lots of mentally ill blame relatives for crazy shit. I know from personal experience watching my family and extended deal with my mentally ill uncle trying to get him help and deal with his accusations and threats. He had a full flow chart of his insane conspiracy nonsence that connected everyone in his life to some horrible accusations. My father (who refused to communicate with him after recieving multiple death threats and endless calls begging for money) according to my uncle was in league; Satan, the sheriff department, and his exgirlfriends brothers girlfriend to do various horrible thing to him I do not exagerate. Altman happens to be wealthy famous and in position of power and have a mental ill sibling. I find it very possible he has done nothing to her. I have no proof either way. My only thought is that all else being equal I would tend to trust the word of someone that is emotionally and mentally stable more than that of someone that is neither and has admitted to being off of their medication and is making accusations about something that they were to young to remember with any degree of accuracy.
- babymode 3y agothis is a strange and concerning comment imo
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- brvsft 3y agoSuch an accusation coming from a family member is different than when it comes from some random homeless drug addict off of the street.
- jug 3y agoad hominem much?
- red-iron-pine 3y agoand what pray-tell are those?
- otteromkram 3y agoDuckDuckGo is a great internet search tool if you don't want to muddy up your Google history (which is very understandable).
- nkurz 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785072
- xkqd 3y agoIn all my time here, I have never seen this “Sorry.” page before. Does anyone know what that’s about?
- Sebb767 3y agoSee the pinned comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310213
- dragonwriter 3y agoIts a about the CEO of the leading firm in the area of tech most at the center of technical and political controversy and interest right now being forced out by their board, when that CEO had, even before taking on that role, particular high salience among the HN audience as, among other things, the former head of YC, and the resulting (I am assuming from the oerformance and dangs description) state of near-meltdown of HNs servers.
- nightpool 3y agoThe "Sorry" page is a standard HN error message that shows up when the server is under high load, it has nothing to do with this link specifically
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- dragonwriter 3y agoBut not, in and of themselves something likely to get Altman dismissed for lack of candor with the board.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoAlso doesn't seem to be a particularly recent development.
- projectazorian 3y agoMaybe new evidence came to light, an internal investigation wrapped up, or there's a media story about to drop. (The allegations are public enough and concerning enough that it would have been corporate malpractice if MS didn't ask for an investigation. Discreet due diligence investigations into things like this happen all the time when billions of dollars in investment capital are on the table.)
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- yk 3y ago"Not consistently candid" implies that the board was naive, while "his personal conduct does not hold up the high standards openAI sets for ourselves" does not. So in that case they would use a different spin.
- projectazorian 3y agoA lot of the allegations relate to conduct that happened before he was an employee. In that case he could only be disciplined for lying about the conduct.