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You'd be getting on the bad side of some of the most powerful people in tech and taking the helm of a company full of people who don't want you running it. It's
by HighFreqAsuka 3y ago
You'd be getting on the bad side of some of the most powerful people in tech and taking the helm of a company full of people who don't want you running it. It's not a surprise a lot of people don't want the role.
- infoseek12 3y agoAnd given the present turmoil they aren’t likely to remain in the position very long. Unless there are significant financial inducements, that vest without any tenure requirements, it’s hard to see an upside.
- tempsy 3y agoEmmett Shear is a YC insider and didn't hesitate...
- Obscurity4340 3y agoWhat makes Sam Altman so damn special in this regard? Why is he immune to all these same adversarial interests and inputs where anyone else would be imperiled?
- HighFreqAsuka 3y agoBecause he's the former president of YC. One of the powerful people you'd be pissing of by doing this is Sam Altman.
- Sai_ 3y agoDon’t think the former CEO of GitHub is going to be that alarmed about upsetting Sam Altman. You may be seeing their decision making through the lens of a no-name founder applying to YC for their first cheque.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoCan he like...hack my HN account aha? That would be the extent of my concern or fear of him
- fakedang 3y agoWell he could have you shadowbanned on every platform except Onlyfans and Pornhub.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoHow so? Yallenge accepted Edit: moar elaboration please
- otikik 3y agoI think the implication is that he could “talk to his friends”, more than doing things directly.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoYa but that still ain't gonna tell them anything? Who uses "real" credentials anymore? Also, why doesn't she just hire a lawyer to help her sign up ?
- vasco 3y agoThis is what his sister said, they are just trolling I think.
- Obscurity4340 3y agowat
- vasco 3y agoHis sister has been reported to say that Sam Altman banned her from every platform except those two. It's been reported she might struggle with mental issues, though who knows what happened. So I'm pretty sure whoever said that was just trolling.
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- Obscurity4340 3y agoWhat does YC have to do with OpenAI?
- ShamelessC 3y agoSam Altman was President of YC and CEO of OpenAI.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoAnd...?
- ShamelessC 3y agoAre you trolling? I answered your question in the clearest way I could think to. I have no idea what the actual implications are of the relation. But it's there and it's suggested his network of friends from YC could bolster his position with OpenAI. No idea if that's true, but it's not like it is so strange a notion that it merits "playing dumb" like you're doing.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoIt just seems like such a weird claim. Like, does she have receipts to prove all these platforms are denying her? It just seems to be stretching credulity and I can't see how its possible for them to get this granular about it. I dunno, she needs to substantiate these things.
- stillwithit 3y agoAppeal to hallucinated authority
- Obscurity4340 3y agoUnlike my objection to the use of the concept of hullucination in relation to the output of LLMs, I concur here!
- dheera 3y agoI'd be more worried that all your employees don't want you there, and you'll be in for a lot of cold shoulder meetings every day. Doesn't sound like fun. The "powerful" people outside, matter a lot less. No matter what you do, if you're influential, about half the powerful will hate you and half will love you.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoIts like Mr. Burns relying on the competing diseases to bottleneck his death
- nostromo 3y agoIt's more "how" than "who" (although "who" also matters) If the board talked to Altman and said, "hey this is the wrong direction" or "it's moving too fast." Then if they'd given him a chance to adjust. And only if they were unable to agree after a reasonable time, then they crafted a plan to responsibly change leadership after a transition period, that'd probably be fine. But instead they just bounced him randomly and called him a liar publicly without any thought on who would step in. Who would want to work for them?
- Obscurity4340 3y agoHe's honestly a bit more "sympathetic" than this incorporeal Board even thought there is innuendo he's awful and there's obviously accusations re:sister altho she seems a little waffley based on what I've resd about her comments on the matter
- SilverBirch 3y agoI think to a certain extent they knew how weak they were. They knew if it turned into a long drawn out protracted fight in public it would be bad for them. You can imagine it now - David Sacks going on a long rant about how they don't have skin in the game and they're woke etc. etc. What the board was there to do - act as a check on the for-profit part of the company, goes basically directly against what most people in silicon valley want. So I don't think it's unreasonable that they thought they needed to move before Sam shored up support from investors etc.
- petre 3y agoIf 90% of the employees who signed the letter to dismiss the board would follow him, he is kind of special right now. Or maybe anyone in their right mind would side with the ousted CEO rather than an impulsive board.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoAm ai a bad person for considering this a reasonable heuristic for concluding the wrong decision was made and also that he may very well be the leader we need for OpenAI rather than the leader we deserve or would ideally best comport in that role?
- lawn 3y agoMaybe 90% of employees doesn't follow Sam specifically, but are appalled by the board's behavior?
- wahnfrieden 3y agoIt’s simply greed: OAI employees have $5-20m+ equity packages and want that number to grow, and they trust the guy who’s made himself the face of the company through its growth The large financial stakes of OAI employees is more powerful than ideas about morality or idealism that are offered as the reasons here They have an opportunity to sell equity next month as well in a second offering and obviously don’t want to wipe out that value suddenly. The workers stand to make hugely generational wealth overnight. Of course that’s on their mind as otherwise wage earners.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoIt seems also similar to that old conspiracy thing where "Nobody talks [acts unilaterally] and everyone escspes justice"
- user_named 3y agoMomentum
- gexla 3y agoImagine the huge change the company took. They went from negotiating on a deal which would turn OpenAI into an 80 billion dollar company to this deal may no longer going through. You would then be working under this huge change with a CEO with a mission to "slow down" and likely feeling much more constrained by the board. Altman would likely push back a lot more.
- adrr 3y agoBecause its a clown show and now you have a bunch of your talent leaving. You're always going to get compared with the former CEO. I can't believe anyone took the role.