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There is one OpenAI board member who has an art degree and is part of some kind of cultish "singularity" spiritual/neo-religious thing. That individual has also
by 0xDEF 3y ago
There is one OpenAI board member who has an art degree and is part of some kind of cultish "singularity" spiritual/neo-religious thing. That individual has also never had a real job and is on the board of several other non-profits.
What the hell were they thinking? Just because you are a non-profit doesn't mean you should imitate other non-profits and put crazies on the board.
- crop_rotation 3y agoThe only explanation I can find is that their importance went through a step function at the launch of ChatGPT, and before that it didn't matter who was a board member.
- markus_zhang 3y agoSmells like XYZ agencies, or some white gloves.
- astrange 3y agoNo, all native Californians are like this (this just replaces hippie Buddhism with hippie computer worship) and the singularity stuff is the reason OpenAI was founded in the first place. And the reason Elon is mad at them, because they pivoted from it.
- markus_zhang 3y agoThanks, love the insight.
- j45 3y agoHippie computer worship seems like indirectly self worship as the creators.
- vyzU9AjsoQe 3y ago[flagged]
- j45 3y agoNon profits too often can be uniquely bureaucratic, undertrained in governance and efficiency, and more tied to deeper personal interpretations or none at all and being open to bouts of oversimplification.
- gkbrk 3y agoAnd their old CEO even runs a cryptocurrency scam. Truly an interesting bunch of people.