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by cthalupa 3y ago
Are you saying that Sam has the ability to generate new contracts when you say take contracts with him, or do you think that somehow the existing contracts with Microsoft and other investors are tied to where he is?
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by cthalupa 3y ago
That's the intent of the arrangement, but there's also limits - when that pursuit of profit begins to interfere with the charter of the non-profit, you end up in this situation. https://openai.com/charter > Ope
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by cthalupa 3y ago
It's possible that the failure occurred at some point in the past. If the board truly believes keeping Altman is inherently incompatible with achieving their charter, they have to let him go. The fallout from that potentially kills the
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I think we need to read this carefully. "Venture capital firms holding positions in OpenAI’s for-profit entity have discussed working with Microsoft and senior employees at the company to bring back Altman" "The playbook, a s
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by cthalupa 3y ago
It's still tough. They won't have the data used to train the model, which is an incredibly important part. There's a lot of existing competitors in this space with headstarts. There's no guarantee that the entire researc
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I don't know that it would be a resume that would inspire confidence in a for-profit business's board that is primarily concerned with shareholder value. I also don't know that it is a particularly problematic resume for some
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Except Tasha McCauley has far more claim to expertise in this space, however tenuous you may believe it to be, than her husband does. JGL is not relevant in the discussion, either. We're not talking about her in context of him. We are
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by cthalupa 3y ago
If this had been presented as a bad outcome or even an improbable one I would agree. And of course you can just complain and do whatever you want in general within the boundaries of the law, free speech, etc. But if you sign an agreement sa
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by cthalupa 3y ago
It wouldn't be a good idea in a regular business, for sure. But non-profits aren't a regular business and their ultimate obligation is to their charter. Depending on just what the level of misalignment was here, it's possible
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I think the larger issue here is that there's just not enough of that nvidia hardware out there if Microsoft decided to really play hardball, even if it hurts themselves in the short term. I don't know that any of the other cloud
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by cthalupa 3y ago
It's not because the accusation is against a female, it's because referring to someone solely as the spouse of someone else is a frequent tactic used to dismiss women. That might not have been the intent, but when you accidentally
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by cthalupa 3y ago
What we're seeing is that (predictably) the investors have decided that they don't care that they agreed with it and they don't want to lose out on their investment. What remains to be seen is just how closely the board holds
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by cthalupa 3y ago
LLCs do not require rights be assigned fairly to all shareholders if the operating agreement and by-laws say otherwise. This is the case with OpenAI, where the operating agreement effectively makes the fiduciary duty of the for-profit the a
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Treating the non-profit OpenAI board like the board for a regular for-profit is weird. This isn't just a non-profit holding company for tax purposes - the whole thing is structured with the intent of giving the non-profit complete cont
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Impossible to know what is going on, really. The Forbes article makes it sound like there is significant investment pressure in trying to get Altman back on board, and they likely have access to the board. It could very well be that the boa
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Certainly. I think at current "AI" just enables us to continue making the same bad decisions we were already making, though, albeit at a faster pace. It's existential in that those same bad decisions might lead to existential
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by cthalupa 3y ago
How does any of this prevent a computer from using that same wallet/hash to sign in?
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by cthalupa 3y ago
This fear seems to have been largely played up for drama. My understanding of the situation is that at one point they went 'Huh, we could potentially set off a chain reaction here. We should check out if the math adds up on that.'
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Your position seems presupposed on the idea that people think Sam going back is beneficial for OpenAI. Personally this is all largely popcorn munching entertainment for me, as I don't think Sutskever is right about a lot of his core te
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by cthalupa 3y ago
There's not many Einsteins of anything besides Einstein himself. That doesn't change the fact that he is widely considered in the field to be a top expert and has shown that he can lead the development of a wildly successful produ
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by cthalupa 3y ago
The entire setup is structured so that they are not supposed to be beholden to investors. If it is true that they ultimately are and Microsoft is the leverage to get Altman back, then they explicitly failed in the goal in setting up their s
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by cthalupa 3y ago
You are absolutely delusional if you think the man who oversaw the development of GPT would not be able to continue working in tech even if he orchestrated a failed coup.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I do not believe AGI poses an exponential threat. I honestly don't believe we're particularly close to anything resembling AGI, and I certainly don't think transformers are going to get us there. But this is a bad argument. N
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by cthalupa 3y ago
While you obviously seem to care more about business experience than other things, it seems odd that you would discount Adam D'Angelo even from your point of argument - The former CTO/VP of Engineering for Facebook and founding CE
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by cthalupa 3y ago
The non-profit is legally obligated to follow their charter. If they truly believe that allowing Altman to remain CEO is a contraindication to that, then they have to fire him. They might not survive such a firing due to the fallout, but th
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> Sustkever et all resign, new board appointed and Sam and Greg come back. > Things could be back to business as usual by Monday morning. How in the world is losing Sutskever business as usual?
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Unless seeing something new on dev day is exactly what they meant by Altman not being consistently candid.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Sutskever has shifted to safety and alignment research this year. Previously he was directly in charge of the development of GPT, from GPT-1 on. Brockman did an entirely different type of work than Sutskever. Brockman's primary focus w
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by cthalupa 3y ago
There might be some conflict of interest but the resolution to those conflicts is clear: The mission comes first. OpenAI employees might not like it and it might drive them to leave, but they entered into this agreement with a full understa
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> Sam Altman has been an objectively successful leader of OpenAI. I'm not sure this is actually the case, even ignoring the non-profit charter and the for-profit being beholden to it. We know that OpenAI has been the talk of the tow

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