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Was the golden boy for a while? What shifted? I don't even remember what he did "first" to get the status. Is it maybe just a case of familiarity breeding conte
by edoceo 9mo ago
Was the golden boy for a while? What shifted? I don't even remember what he did "first" to get the status. Is it maybe just a case of familiarity breeding contempt?
- icepush 9mo agoIt is starting to become clear to more and more people that Sam is a dyed in the wool True Believer in AGI. While it's obvious in hindsight that OpenAI would never have gotten anywhere if he wasn't, seeing it so starkly is really rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.
- steveBK123 9mo agoAdvertising Generated Income?
- Bayko 9mo agoDamm this is smart. I like it
- steveBK123 9mo agoSomeone else said it first here
- upboundspiral 9mo agoOne of my favorites is Amphora of Great Intelligence by the artist David Revoy. https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1090/the-amphora-of-great-intelligence-agi https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1090/the-amphora-of-great-... https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1092/the-amphora-of-great-intelligence-agi-part-2 https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1092/the-amphora-of-great-...
- justcool393 9mo agoit's even worse than that and i hope people recognize that it's not that he's a True Believer (though the TBs are often hilarious) it's that he has no ethics to speak of at all. it's not that he's out of touch, it's that he simply does not care.
- munksbeer 9mo agoWhy would him believing in AGI make people dislike him? He is clearly disliked by a lot of tech community, I don't see his AGI belief as a big part of that.
- icepush 9mo agoWell, in the world where AGI is created and it goes suboptimally, everybody gets turned into computronium and goes extinct, which is a prospect some are miffed about. And, in the world where it goes well, no decision of any consequence is made by a human being ever again, since the computer has planned every significant life event since before their birth. Free will in a very literal sense will have been erased. Sam being a true believer means he is not going to stop working until one of these worlds comes true. People who understand the stakes are understandably irked by him.
- pinnochio 9mo agoAll the manipulation and lying that got him fired.
- chihuahua 9mo agoHe is a pretty interesting case. According to the book "Empire of AI" about OpenAI, he lies constantly, even about things that are too trivial to matter. So it may be part of some compulsive behavior. And when two people want different things from him, he "resolves" the conflict by agreeing with each of them separately, and then each assumes they got what they wanted, until they talk to the other person and find out that nothing was resolved. Really not a person who is qualified to run a company, except the constant lying is good for fundraising and PR.
- kreelman 9mo agoHe was once a big pin in Y Combinator (I think kind of ran it?)... Paul Graham thought he was great for YC. Interesting that he's got as far as he has with this issue. I don't think you can run a company effectively if you don't deal in truth. Some of his videos have seemed quite bizarre as well, quite sarcastic about concerns people have about AI in general.
- owebmaster 9mo ago> He was once a big pin in Y Combinator (I think kind of ran it?)... Paul Graham thought he was great for YC. And today it seems everyone will at YC hate him but pretend not
- junofan 9mo agoSounds like when people are politicking he just takes a “whatever” approach haha. That seems reasonable.
- pinnochio 9mo agoNo, that's not what he's doing.
- onetokeoverthe 9mo ago[dead]
- PunchyHamster 9mo agoWell, he made mistake many billionaires do, he opened his mouth with his own thoughts, instead of just reading what PR department told him to read