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by bertil 3y ago
I would be shocked if that was the case. There are plenty of people I know from FAANG, now at OpenAI, where they do product design, operation, and DevOps at scale —all complicated, valuable, and worthwhile endeavors in their own right— that
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by bertil 3y ago
I read this as, and both Conway and Y Combinator are famous for their defense of founders . He might be emotional and defend his friends that’s not in challenge, he likes the guys— and he might be more cynical when it comes to firing 10,00
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by bertil 3y ago
Oh no, definitely—I’m beyond reading the tea leaves here. It could be the other way around: Sam & Greg were asked, refused, and didn't tell the board that asked, but they deemed "safe" meant sending people with guns to an
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by bertil 3y ago
And he probably wouldn’t approve unless there was a specific use case that he thought mandated an exception. Recent international news provide some inspiration.
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by bertil 3y ago
What I meant was: has emotional ties to what happening in Ukraine. It could influence how they perceive the merits of a military collaboration. Many Poles for instance would be ready to do anything.
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by bertil 3y ago
Greg adding “safe” in his statement compared to the board’s message points at a security reason (presumably sharing with the CIA who’s spending a lot of time asking specific questions about bioweapons).
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by bertil 3y ago
I thought Ilya was from a Russian family who emigrated to Israel last century… You learn. Whether Albania is in Eastern Europe is debatable. It was behind the Iron Curtain.
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by bertil 3y ago
Yes: a handful of organisations would do shameful things to get raw conversations for certain individuals outside of judicial review.
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by bertil 3y ago
He’s a power-broker in mil tech
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by bertil 3y ago
I couldn’t tell you. Slow blink.
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by bertil 3y ago
Hipaa definitely was in there, but you don’t fire people rapidly for that, unless it was deliberate, and I can't see Sam surprising people with that.
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by bertil 3y ago
Military contract or sharing raw data with CIA, Palantir, Mossad, etc. would explain why they intervened (and why Sam and Greg couldn’t be candid: gag order).
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by bertil 3y ago
It could have been a military contract with a gag order: Sam wasn’t forthright because he couldn’t.
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by bertil 3y ago
Military collaboration, possibly secret (CIA/Palantir/Mossad/etc.) You wouldn’t say what (gag order all around), but you would need to revoke all access immediately. Explains why foreigners CxO were left in the dark. Explains
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by bertil 3y ago
That’s the most sensible suggestion. Sam’s Twitter one-emoji bio is uncharacteristically brief, and points at an ongoing conflict. Eric Schmidt would know about it, and defend Sam. The foreigners CxO would likely be kept in the dark.
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by bertil 3y ago
What fits best is Sam signing a contract for military use of OpenAI. With secrecy clauses, he couldn’t mention it. He likely could not tell the two foreigners on the exec team. Eric Schmidt would likely know about it, and defend Sam. Sam wo
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by bertil 3y ago
The statement doesn't read like it was a financial problem. If it were, they’d name a CFO or raise the inexplicably cheap subscription, for one. My money is on a MilTech contract. Same got it approved in secrecy without telling the oth
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by bertil 3y ago
The most plausible explanation is that OpenAI tech was used for the military. That would explain why Eric Schmidt would not (and his immediate support) and that board is anti-mil tech enough to think those applications don’t “benefit all of
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by bertil 3y ago
The most plausible explanation is that OpenAI tech was used for the military. That would explain why Eric Schmidt would not (and his immediate support) and that board is anti-mil tech enough to think those applications don’t “benefit all of
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by bertil 3y ago
Sam would have been more apologetic or at least contrite in his tweet if it was hurting anyone. Same: Eric Schmidt was immediately positive, so presumably he knows. ES would never defend a guy who hid a leak. Unless if, by “security” you me
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by bertil 3y ago
It suggests that he thinks there’s a way to defend his actions, so it’s not a personal matter (Metoo) or blatant fraud. It could be about the cost of operating the business (consistent with the announcement to cut Plus subscription, althoug
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by bertil 3y ago
That doesn't justify a sudden firing and describing him as not candid.
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by bertil 3y ago
Han Solo’s quote makes sense if you understand it as a unit of distance, optimized by the onboard computer to be as short as possible, by dodging black holes, and therefore fast.
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by bertil 3y ago
If this is sold in Ikea, expect the most conflicted take about being Swedish since the war.
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by bertil 3y ago
> She definitely worked on other projects in that time. If you didn't recognize the name, you are in for a treat… She filmed a lot of those and her collaboration with other makers — her videos with Laura Kampf are a breath of fresh
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by bertil 3y ago
Because that’s too short (12 parsecs being close to the theoretical maximum without being swallowed by a black hole) or because it thinks that you confused a unit of distance and speed?
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by bertil 3y ago
I suspect smart people could fix the nightmare around dependencies and packaging for less than 3M, and the economic gains would be immeasurable.
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by bertil 3y ago
Is it still something you can code with your mouse? I remember having to deal with it on my first job because the team knew nothing about coding. They had “recorded” macros by clicking around and never seeing a line of code. It was incredib
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by bertil 3y ago
It was only 100M seconds ago…
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by bertil 3y ago
If you want a violent contrast, cycling is out there. Most cars feel like submarines after riding a bike.

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