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(+) Larry Summers on the board and overseeing the report is a really good choice. Summers is truly a high-intellect individual (entered MIT at age 16 to study p
by nabla9 3y ago
(+) Larry Summers on the board and overseeing the report is a really good choice. Summers is truly a high-intellect individual (entered MIT at age 16 to study physics, one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard). More importantly, he is known to be someone who thinks for himself, can't be controlled, and can sort relevant from irrelevant. Blunt and arrogant too.
> Paul Graham remains hilariously incapable of saying anything unambiguously nice about Altman
The joy of getting rid of someone cleanly with mutual agreement to not talks it publicly and not to diss each other.
- himaraya 3y agoOn the other hand, Summers did lend his credibility to the crypto scam DCG and helped lay the groundwork for the 2008 financial crisis. He gets in over his head sometimes.
- tuatoru 3y agoSummers is a fourth-rate intellectual who wants us to think he is second rate.[1] He does good self-promotion. 1. In this scale first-rate is the likes of John von Neumann and Albert Einstein.
- foobarqux 3y agoSummers is a rubber stamp: See what Elizabeth Warren said he said to him: “ He teed it up this way: I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders.”
- nabla9 3y agoHolding your tongue is important if you want to get things happen your way. Not criticizing is not the same as doing what others tell you.
- foobarqux 3y agoYes, Summers is going to act in his own interest, which means not going against the interests of powerful people. There is no evidence he has ever stood up to do the right thing on principle.