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Traitorous eight
- meepmorp 3y ago> Although Shockley was never diagnosed by psychiatrists, historians characterized Shockley's state of mind in 1956–1957 as paranoia or autism. All phone calls were recorded, and the staff was not allowed to share their results with each other, which was not feasible since they all worked in a small building. Shockley, not trusting his employees, was sending their reports to Bell Labs for double-checking. At some point, he sent the entire lab for a lie detector test, though everyone refused. People don't quit jobs, they quit managers.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoThese and the Gang of Nine are high in my pantheon of entities that have shaped the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Industry_Standard_Architecture#The_Gang_of_Nine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Industry_Standard_Arc...
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- neilv 3y agoWas this post inspired by the OpenAI news?
- borski 3y agoPretty obviously. Once gdb left after sama, it's fairly certain plenty of high level folks are going to follow. gdb is brilliant, and a very very good dude. This doesn't look good for OpenAI.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agosama? gdb? these acronyms are getting out of hand!
- mcenedella 3y agoOf course!
- mortenjorck 3y agohttps://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes
- kristjansson 3y agoApropos of nothing, of course.
- mcenedella 3y agoJust a reminder that corporate structures are there to serve the scientists and engineers, not the other way around. For OpenAI, their particular weird corporate structure was far too flawed. The engineers and scientists will readily find another, and progress will continue.
- singularity2001 3y agoFunny how you already speak in past tense, but I agree, OpenAI is likely the MySpace of this decade. Not least because of the name "GPT" alone.
- satvikpendem 3y agoWho else shaped the world so thoroughly as these eight? I am thinking of those who made the first beer in Mesopotamia, China, the Indus Valley, and Mesoamerica. A side note, what really grinds my gears is historians not focusing on the events of non-Western nations even if they know, at least vaguely, of advances in such areas of the world. The Earth is not merely made up of only Western sensibilities.
- deepsun 3y agoWestern historians tend to focus more on Western history. Other historians tend to focus on their part of the history more. Don't see any problem here.
- rasz 3y agoAll hands on scientists/engineers, not VC funding/idea/sales people.
- searedmackerel 3y agoI recommend the book Chip War (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60321447-chip-war https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60321447-chip-war) if anyone’s curious to learn more about this topic and the history of semiconductor development. I feel like the history of computers and the internet tend to get most of the spotlight in Silicon Valley history, but this revolution was huge and quite interesting too.