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I wouldn’t hold Sam bringing him over in too high a regard. Fucking each other over is a sport in Silicon Valley. You’re subservient exactly until the moment yo
by nemo44x 3y ago
I wouldn’t hold Sam bringing him over in too high a regard. Fucking each other over is a sport in Silicon Valley. You’re subservient exactly until the moment you sense an opportunity to dominate. It’s just business.
- bezier-curve 3y ago"Business" sucks then. This is sociopathic behavior.
- bredren 3y agoWhat has been seen can not be unseen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881296
- dendrite9 3y agoThanks for that. The discussion feels like a look into another world, which I guess is what history is.
- rjbwork 3y agoYes. That is what is valued in the economic system we have. Absolute cut throat dominance to take as big a chunk of any pie you can get your grubby little fingers into yields the greatest amount of capital.
- nemo44x 3y agoIt’s not just business that works like this. Any type of organization of consequence has sociopaths at the top. It’s the only way to get there. It’s a big game that some people know how to play well and that many people are oblivious to.
- TerrifiedMouse 3y agoWhy did Altman bring him onboard in the first place? What value does he provide? If there is a conflict of interest why didn’t Altman see it? If this Quora guy is the cause of all this, Altman only has himself to blame since he is the reason the Quora guy is on the board.
- kaoD 3y agoThat Quora guy was CTO and VPEng of Facebook so plenty of connections I guess. Also Quora seems like a good source of question-and-answer data which has probably been key in gpt-instruct training.