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Actual unedited title: "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board after release of emails with Epstein"
by add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
Actual unedited title: "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board after release of emails with Epstein"
- rchaud 1y agoIt might have gotten flagged as political content if the full title was used.
- pton_xd 1y agoReid Hoffman already resigned so I guess, kudos to him for getting ahead of the curve!
- dylan604 1y agoNext up will be selling of shares to finance defense teams
- foobarian 1y agoTitle as interpreted by me: "Larry Summers was on the OpenAI board this whole time"
- pphysch 1y agoEchoes of Kissinger on Theranos' board (and many other examples, no doubt).
- wantlotsofcurry 1y agoI had to look this up. That is absolutely insane…
- hermitcrab 1y agoI still haven't got over war criminal Kissinger getting a Nobel Peace Prize.
- ben_w 1y agoSuch a weird history, that one. Two of the committee resigned in protest, Kissinger almost turned it down because it was also being awarded to Lê Đức Thọ, Lê Đức Thọ actually turned it down because the peace it was supposed to be about hadn't happened yet, Kissinger accepted in absentia as he did not want to be targeted by anti-war protestors when getting the peace prize, then he later tried to return it only for the committee to say no.
- lupire 1y agoThe Peace Prize is weird one. It is a political tool to pressure people toward peace. That's why Obama got one strictly for not being George W Bush. It's one of the few Trump grievant that is legitimate.
- antonvs 1y ago> It's one of the few Trump grievant that is legitimate. Hardly. What does it have to do with Trump? The only reason it's a "grievance" is that Trump feels he should get the prize. While he supports a genocidal nation and tries to start wars.
- FridayoLeary 1y ago[flagged]
- db48x 1y agoHaber invented the process for artificially creating ammonia. Since ammonia is a critical fertilizer, this invention has fed billions of people. On the other hand, it’s also critical for the manufacture of explosives. His work on chemical weapons was practically irrelevant by comparison. This was an astounding feat of chemistry, and well worth rewarding. But fundamentally I don’t think we should make moral judgements over things like chemistry. A chemical process to create ammonia is a tool, and tools can always be used for good or evil. Even explosives are just tools that can be used for good or evil. Sometimes those explosives are even the same substance that is used for fertilizer. The morality of the use of the tool is provided by the user of the tool, not the creator of the tool. We can celebrate the people who make the tools while saving our condemnation for the people who use tools for evil. I agree about the Peace prize though, that one’s generally worthless.
- pyuser583 1y ago“This whole time” - didn’t the OpenAI board get cleaned out after they failed to fire Sam?