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by bart_spoon 3y ago
I think the last couple decades have demonstrated the dangers of corporate leadership beholden to whims of shareholders. Jack Welch-style management where the quarterly numbers always go up at the expense of the employee, the company, and t
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
You are assuming there was absolutely no build up to the firing. Just because the disagreements weren’t public doesn’t mean they weren’t happening.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
The only stakeholder here of note not on the board is Microsoft, who not only is a strong proponent for the kinds of commercialization and acceleration that the board is supposedly concerned with, but is also one of the single most powerful
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
I’m actually starting to believe that the more companies he is a CEO of, the better they will do, as he will have his attention divided between them all and less time to negatively impact them on an individual level.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
The same reason superstar athletes and athletic events are all flocking to the Middle East. Some of the richest fortunes on the planet are associated there, but they’ve been amassed almost exclusively on oil and in nations that are generall
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
Yes, this was my thought when seeing those comparisons as well.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
I agree that it’s far than a one man show at OpenAI, but on the other hand megacorps full of many of the smartest, best compensated research scientists and engineers haven’t been able to touch OpenAI at this point, even with much greater re
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
That seems like an incredibly foolish measure of credibility. Donald Trump and Taylor Swift have far greater name recognition than Altman, and yet they aren’t going to be leading the AI revolution. OpenAI is where it is because its models a
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
It may not feel close, but the rate of acceleration may mean that by the time it “feels” close it’s already here. It was barely a year ago that ChatGPT was released. Compare GPT-4 with the state of the art 2 years prior to its release, and
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
I have no dog in this fight, but I’m pointing out that they didn’t say there was misanthropy in your post, but that your post inspires misanthropy in others.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
All programming languages, including C, have significant white space. Python just has slightly more.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
Altman did specifically say it’s a “better model” than GPT4, but that’s “better” is vague enough that it might not actually be in terms of accuracy.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
Not the commenter but my library is similar. I live in a suburb of Indianapolis that is quite well off for the area, though very low cost of living in comparison to many metro areas across the country. We also have a city funded makerspace
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
Of course they will. What is the magic that separates success from failure that apparently only magically appears within the last 4 weeks with operating capital in the bank? Move your time tables up by 4-8 weeks, including funding raises an
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
If things are so dire today that they have no money and must shutdown immediately, they were dead in the water 6-8 weeks ago anyways. The company isn’t going to be miraculously saved during that time, so just take the cash you used to pay y
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
If things are dire enough to close up shop now, they probably were dire enough to close up shop 2 months ago, and you can use the cash to give your employees some runway for finding new employment.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
Their wealth goes up but they can only access that wealth by selling. And in the meantime, if they don’t sell, simply living on the property becomes increasingly expensive. So yes, they won’t be walking away with nothing, but no, I can’t im
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
Wired has been a dumpster for quite some time. A low quality article like this getting published is entirely on brand.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
The opioid epidemic isn’t making a dent in the lower life expectancy. Lower life expectancy is almost entirely due to heart diseases, diabetes, and cancer, and those are being driven primarily by bad diets, poor sleep, and sedentary lifesty
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
Why are they most certainly not mature enough. Having children in the 20s or has been the standard for essentially all of human history until the last 30 years, give or take. What is it about modern society that makes human beings less fit
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
If your employer is increasing the workday to 8-6 due to Zoom calls then you are in the minority and that is an issue with your employer, not remote work.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
So the results from all studies are based on self-reported stress, studies may include other non-breathing related interventions, the breathwork intervention can comprise any number of kinds of breathwork, and authors themselves conclude th
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
$85 does seem like a lot of money for a haircut. I used to use the Great Clips, $10 places before switching to a “proper” barber that was more like $30 (US). Was it better? Yes. But I’m still not sure if it’s worth the money. I have a lot o
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
It isn't rocket science. Cities in the US are pretty undesirable places to be outside a very select demographic of the population. Decent areas tend to be expensive, public transportation is generally bad, walkability is often poor, sc
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
New hires and juniors can easily learn by taking an active part in their own education. Firing a question into a public slack channel waiting for someone to answer is the laziest attempt to actually get an answer. Better is identifying some
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
> if you're young you probably want to be around others to learn from You can easily learn from coworkers working remotely, I personally have had no issues doing so. The idea that you can't is a weird one and I have no idea whe
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
> That's very interesting. My experience has been the opposite, that people who are pro-remote are intense about it, that they often deny there being any benefits to working in an office and get angry and dismissive toward anyone wh
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
Microsoft is neither close to eating Steams lunch nor is this acquisition going to change anything about the competitive landscape. Microsoft is currently a distant third place behind Sony and Nintendo, and after this acquisition they are..
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
It seems like it would be easy to just normalize scores. Rather than a book’s score being the average rating they’ve received, it should be a z-score based on all ratings.
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by bart_spoon 3y ago
I guarantee you well over 50% of this website is American or lives currently in America. Twitter is also an American company so it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots and understand that the commenter is referring to the US.

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