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This entire OpenAI hardware thing is a vanity project by Sam Altman wanting really bad to be Steve Jobs. Just look at this comical announcment photo and letter
by paxys 3mo ago
This entire OpenAI hardware thing is a vanity project by Sam Altman wanting really bad to be Steve Jobs. Just look at this comical announcment photo and letter from last year https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/ https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/. If this lawsuit results in the whole thing getting canned it might actually be good for OpenAI because it'll save them from pouring further billions down the drain over what will eventually be the Humane Pin 2.0.
- walrus01 3mo ago[flagged]
- hbn 3mo agoWe are all long aware that Jobs was a flawed individual. But he made good products that most people like to use. That was GP they were getting at with "he wants to be Steve Jobs." You don't need to hamfist that into the conversation every times Jobs' name comes up.
- jbs789 3mo agoNo need to be disrespectful.
- walrus01 3mo ago[flagged]
- ktallett 3mo agoWhy do you focus on the dead and not on the living who have done as bad?
- podgietaru 3mo agoYou can, and should, do both. The mythologising of some really bad people got us here.
- walrus01 3mo agoWhy do you assume I don't also criticize living jerks?
- ktallett 3mo agoAltman has far worse issues, considering his alleged actions towards his sister.
- skeeter2020 3mo agoIMO it's not a outrage/apologist thing anymore, just played out and irrelevant. There are so many current problems that we don't need to dig up things about Jobs - or defend him. Let's fix-forward.
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- charlesfries 3mo agoTangentially related, but I was rewatching the old iPhone 3G keynote recently, and you wouldn't believe who made an appearance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5xOI_qu9I&t=1649s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5xOI_qu9I&t=1649s
- joennlae 3mo agowhat a find
- mock-possum 3mo agoWow red polo with a green polo underneath and double popped collars That’s a brave look
- paxys 3mo ago2000s Silicon Valley chic
- skeeter2020 3mo agoDid you mean puzzling look? Why is he wearing 2 shirts? In the 90's we would wear a long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt, but we didn't wear multiple t-shirts...
- thewebguyd 3mo agoIt was a thing for a while in the early 2000s, mostly as a preppy status symbol. It was pretty much iconic SV founder uniform for a short time.
- dfc 3mo agoThat was a style then. It may not be your thing or mine, but it's not puzzling that someone was caught up in a fashion style of the times.
- glaslong 3mo agoIt was a preppy frat bro look of the mid-aughts. It got pretty ridiculous. I had a few people in my classes that would do 4+ layers and show up looking like an artichoke. https://www.verdalina.com/blogs/journal/the-popped-collar https://www.verdalina.com/blogs/journal/the-popped-collar
- caycep 3mo agoI wonder why so many ex apple followed this particular path of Kool Aid? or maybe this says more about how the rank and file are just as susceptible to kool aid as any average Silicon Valley schmuck
- dylan604 3mo agoThe slurping of the kool-aid is not limited to SV. I've seen it at a couple of companies I've worked at in the past. Both were media/post type of studios where one you've probably heard of before and the other probably not. They both had employees that had their tongues stained the color of the kool-aid they drank. Seeing people wearing the SWAG shirts and hats of the company they work for in the office is just so cringe to me.
- astrange 3mo agoSome people just don't like buying shirts.
- skeeter2020 3mo agoI'm not a huge fan of my old company, but they had great fitted & soft T-shirts. I wish I had more...
- dylan604 3mo agoYou like advertising for something you're not a huge fan of for free? The logic fails me
- watercolorblind 3mo agoComfy shirt to wear during yard work, working on the car, painting a wall, or laundry day around the house. It's reasonable to me.
- Analemma_ 3mo agoI don't think it's Kool-Aid, I think it's "Apple has notoriously low salaries for a FAANG and OpenAI will probably have a trillion-dollar IPO". You can see right through Altman's charade and still want to work for him for equity.
- overgard 3mo agoGod, I still cringe every time I see that.
- elianaive 3mo agoBecoming more vertically integrated would also just be profitable.
- doctorpangloss 3mo agoTime will tell.
- chakintosh 3mo agoLooks like a wedding invitation
- maxbond 3mo agoTo a degree that feels intentional.