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I think the "getting rid of private ownership" thing is a red herring. I don't think its accurate to say that most people hold it as some kind of deep personal philosophy; not to the "renting is sometimes convenient and
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There are two kinds of people in the world; people who believe "anti-theft" is a reasonable justification for this, and people who believe that this is just another tired "trade freedom for security" argument. You'l
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Fun fact: Figma's ARR in 2022 was around $400M. That $1B cash infusion could be invested in treasuries with an ARR of ~$50M; this isn't just a liquidity infusion of a billion dollars, it increases their net income by like 10%, bas
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One thing I've been thinking more-and-more about recently: People are unique; there's no doubt about that. But how much of "the product manager does product management" is genuinely just the title they're assigned,
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I think a major complaint surfaced about the PM role is: Its rare for even your PM to be an expert in that area. Ideally, they should be. Realistically, there's one guy in another branch of the company with a totally unrelated title th
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I don't feel that an organization like that is the best way to run a company. It may be a superior way to the reality of most companies today, but that reality makes achieving an environment like that extraordinarily difficult. Here&#x
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I... disagree. I feel that the differentiation between "lifting keys" and "maliciously using them" is not a useful one to make. Both actions are very bad. If you want to wait until we have evidence that the compromised k
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> while our universe does have a cosmological horizon (due to accelerating expansion), this horizon does not work the way your hypothetical "event horizon" does. I think this statement is really the crux of the counter-argument
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While it's academically interesting; the M2 Pro/Max Macbook Pros were released in January 2023 (9 months ago). It has rarely been more true of any two generations of Apple products to say that no one who owns an M2 Pro is upgrad
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I think its bold to assert that its "designed" for anyone; but certainly, it "requires" a trained sysadmin to fully understand what is going on.
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Yeah I'm really not sure, except that I definitely did not receive any communication about what happened (this was back in ~May this year). I also did not proactively reach out to Support (busy that day, had backups, and it was fixed b
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I had something similar happen to my paid, enterprise tier Google Workspace account. One day, the entire drive was as if I went in a time machine back quite literally ~six years (I've had the account for a looong time). Dozens of gigab
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But the article's exact wording is "Sustkever is said to have offered two explanations he purportedly received from the board" key word being "purportedly received". He could be choosing words to protect himself, bu
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I think this needs to be viewed through the lens of the gravity of how the board reacted; giving them the benefit of the doubt that they acted appropriately and, at least with the information they had the time, correctly. A hypothetical exa
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So? Sam gave Worldcoin early access to OpenAI's proprietary technology. Should Sam step down (oh wait)?
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This is an interesting theory when combined with this tweet from Google DeepMind's team lead of Scalable Alignment [1]. [1] https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/172675427761849141... The "Sam is act
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Sure. Expensive cars already have that. Car regulations have, almost universally, increased the cost of automobiles. The typical counter-argument to this is that it reduces the national cost-burden of an automobile-ized society by reducing
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I don't feel that mechanically, or even electronically, affecting the engine behavior by installing a general purpose computer that is capable of reading from a centralized database of geolocated speed limits would cost, effectively, $
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This effort feels like another example of the government's desire to push law enforcement into the private sector. Mandate speed limiters > car companies have to pay for it > cars get more expensive > consumers have to pay for
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I don't know; on a lot of those questions. I tend to think that there was more mission and ideology at OAI than at most companies; and that's a very powerful motivational force. Here's something I feel higher confidence in, b
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And if Microsoft had major concerns about OpenAI's board and governance, it should have been voiced and addressed before they invested. Yet; here we are; slaves to our past decisions.
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I tend to think: We, the armchair commentators, do not know what happened internally. I don't know enough to know that the board's execution wasn't the best case scenario to achieve their goal of aligning the entire organizat
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Its been, like, two years dude. This mindset is entirely why any organization which has a chance at inventing/discovering ASI can't be for-profit and needs to be ran by scientists. You've got tik tok brain. Google won't
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And any talented engineer or scientist who actually wants to build safe AGI in an organization that isn't obsessed with boring B2B SaaS would align with Ilya. See, there are two sides to this? Sam isn't a god, despite what the med
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Bad take. Not "everyone" feels that what they did was wrong. We don't have insight into what's going on internally. Optics matter; the division over their decision means that its definitionally non-obvious what the corre
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I find this line of thinking to be extremely indicative of the problem, I'd bet, OpenAI was trying to get rid of with Sam. Here's something to ponder on: The human brain is about the size of an A100, and consumes: 12 watts of po
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> They should have at the very least been privy to the plan, if not outright sanctioned it. Never assume this. After all, their communication specifically cited that Sam deceived them in some way, and Greg was also impacted. Ilya is the
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On Nov 16th at APEC, Sam said "4 times in the history of OpenAI––the most recent time was in the last couple of weeks––I’ve gotten to be in the room when we push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward." T
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Maybe. But, Microsoft definitely does. Technology and IP was a large piece of their compensation in the 49% acquisition.
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Here's a counter-proposal: If you think about it, can't this change actually benefit Microsoft? Sam has an extremely sharp product mind; ChatGPT was his baby, everything from DevDays, the LLM app store; OpenAI was building a pro

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