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Literally no one involved has said what was the original reason. Mira, Ilya & the rest of the board didn't tell. Sam & Greg didn't tell. Satya & other investors

Literally no one involved has said what was the original reason. Mira, Ilya & the rest of the board didn't tell. Sam & Greg didn't tell. Satya & other investors didn't tell. None of the staff incl. Karpathy were told, so ofc they are not going to take the side that kept them in the dark). Emmett was told before he decided to take the interim CEO job, and STILL didn't tell what it was. This whole thing is just so weird. It's like peeking at a forbidden artifact and now everyone has a spell cast upon them.

PepperdineG 3y ago
The original reason given was "lack of candor," just what continues to be questioned is whether or not that was the true reason. The lack of candor comment about their ex-CEO is actually what drew me into this in the first place since it's rare that a major organization publicly gives a reason for parting ways with their CEO unless it's after a long investigation conducted by an outside law firm into alleged misconduct.
Applejinx 3y ago
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- jacquesm 3y ago
  Can you stop reposting this junk. Thanks.
  - Applejinx 3y ago
    …can you establish that the corporate side of AI research is not treating the pursuit of AGI as a super-weapon? It pretty much is what we make it. People's behavior around all this speaks volumes. I'd think all this more amusing if these people weren't dead serious. It's like crypto all over again, except that in this case their attitudes aren't grooming a herd of greater fools, they're seeding the core attitudes superhuman inference engines will have. Nothing dictates that superhuman synthetic intelligence will adopt human failings, yet these people seem intent on forcing them on their creations. Corporate control is not helping, as corporations are compelled to greater or lesser extent to adopt subhuman ethics, the morality of competing mold cultures in petri dishes. People are rightly not going to stop talking about these things.
    - surprisetalk 3y ago
      https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence
- NemoNobody 3y ago
  This is pretty silly stuff. Like, why would an AGI take over the world? How does it perceive power? What about effort? Time? Life? I find it easier to believe that an AGI, even one as evil as Hitler, would simply hide and wait for the end of our civilization rather than risk its immortal existence trying to take out it's creator
- dang 3y ago
  You've posted about this 6 times now and we're getting complaints. Repetition is definitely not what this site is for so could you please stop? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - Applejinx 3y ago
    Understood. I can do a lot better, and thank you for the feedback. I wasn't paying enough attention, in my enthusiasm, and I can do better.

PepperdineG 3y ago

The original reason given was "lack of candor," just what continues to be questioned is whether or not that was the true reason. The lack of candor comment about their ex-CEO is actually what drew me into this in the first place since it's rare that a major organization publicly gives a reason for parting ways with their CEO unless it's after a long investigation conducted by an outside law firm into alleged misconduct.

Applejinx 3y ago

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jacquesm 3y ago
Can you stop reposting this junk. Thanks.
- Applejinx 3y ago
  …can you establish that the corporate side of AI research is not treating the pursuit of AGI as a super-weapon? It pretty much is what we make it. People's behavior around all this speaks volumes. I'd think all this more amusing if these people weren't dead serious. It's like crypto all over again, except that in this case their attitudes aren't grooming a herd of greater fools, they're seeding the core attitudes superhuman inference engines will have. Nothing dictates that superhuman synthetic intelligence will adopt human failings, yet these people seem intent on forcing them on their creations. Corporate control is not helping, as corporations are compelled to greater or lesser extent to adopt subhuman ethics, the morality of competing mold cultures in petri dishes. People are rightly not going to stop talking about these things.
  - surprisetalk 3y ago
    https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence
NemoNobody 3y ago
This is pretty silly stuff. Like, why would an AGI take over the world? How does it perceive power? What about effort? Time? Life? I find it easier to believe that an AGI, even one as evil as Hitler, would simply hide and wait for the end of our civilization rather than risk its immortal existence trying to take out it's creator
dang 3y ago
You've posted about this 6 times now and we're getting complaints. Repetition is definitely not what this site is for so could you please stop? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Applejinx 3y ago
  Understood. I can do a lot better, and thank you for the feedback. I wasn't paying enough attention, in my enthusiasm, and I can do better.