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by cthalupa 3y ago
The for-profit would not exist if the non-profit was not able to maintain control. The only reason it does exist is because they were able to structure it in such a way that the for-profit is completely beholden to the non-profit. There is
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by cthalupa 3y ago
>it seems to be mostly academics and the wife of a Hollywood actor This argument would require you ignore both Sutskever himself as well as D'Angelo, who was CTO/VP of Engineering at Facebook and then founding CEO of Quora.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> I have a contrarian prediction : Due to pressure from investors and a lawsuit against the openai board, the board will be made to resign and Sama & Greg will return to openai. The board is not beholden to any investors. The board i
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> The commercial interests were not well-represented in the number of votes. This is entirely by design. Anyone investing in or working for the for-profit had to sign an operating agreement that literally states the for-profit is entirel
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by cthalupa 3y ago
The thing here is that the structure of these companies and the operating agreement for the for-profit LLC all effectively mean that everyone is warned going in that the for-profit is beholden to the mission of the non-profit and that there
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by cthalupa 3y ago
While technically true, in practicality, they did give money to the non-profit. The even signed an agreement stating that any investments should be considered more as donations, because the for-profit subsidiary's operating agreement i
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Yes. Microsoft had to sign an operating agreement when they invested that said the company has no responsibility or obligation to turn a profit. LLCs are able to structure themselves in such a way that their primary duty is not towards thei
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> Exactly. The tricky part is that board started a second for profit company with VC investors who are co-owners. This has potential for messy conflicts of interest if there is disagreement about how to run the co-venture, and each party
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I'm kind of confused where the confidence comes from that Sam could somehow lure all of the talent out of OpenAI. One of the most important technical talents was apparently the key player in Sam's ouster to begin with, and we have
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by cthalupa 3y ago
It is not that simple. https://openai.com/our-structure The board is for the non-profit that ultimately owns and totally controls the for-profit company. Everyone that works for or invests in the for-profit company has to s
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Is it a massive commercial success? They have received significant funding, and likely have high revenue, but is it profitable? Is it in a position to be profitable? We're not in the world of companies getting decades of runway from VC
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by cthalupa 3y ago
This is a good point in a vacuum, but it's likely not that feasible legally, nor am I sure it would even be in Microsoft's best interests to do so to begin with. Huge portions of the compute they are using is also directly doing i
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by cthalupa 3y ago
By what mechanism? 3/4ths the remaining board have no financial interests in OpenAI.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
The poster's name is [Type Of French Knife][French Word For Azure (the color)] It is likely referring to the color, not the cloud platform.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
They did not ever have the possibility of one but decided that their investment was still worth the return. We can debate whether or not that was wise of them, but because of the charter and structure of OpenAI it was never on the table.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Yes. AGI is literally their charter. https://openai.com/charter
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by cthalupa 3y ago
What mechanism does Satya have to do anything here? Microsoft has a minority stake in the for-profit subsidiary that is wholly controlled by the 501(c)(3). All investors (and employees) in the for-profit have to agree to the operating agree
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by cthalupa 3y ago
https://openai.com/our-structure Microsoft doesn't even own a majority stake in the for-profit, much less anything at all in the non-profit that ultimately controls everything.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
'Understand' and 'reason' are pretty loaded terms. I think many people would disagree with you that LLMs can truly do either.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
OpenAI could shutter it's doors come monday and Satya would be in no danger of losing his position. The man totally reversed course for an increasingly irrelevant Microsoft - he's going to have quite a lot of rope.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> Legally it's not IP theft, because it's just code which can be memorized and rewritten. That is not how IP law works. Even writing new code based on the IP developed at OpenAI would be IP theft. None of this really makes sens
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I think you're likely vastly overestimating the amount of people in the general public who have any idea who Sam is at all.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> Sure, the investors own the company and the board answers to them. Huh? Plenty of startups in the stage being referenced are still majority owned by the founders.
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Yeah. Definitely in that vein - Ian's work draws on a whole lot of sci-fi/cyberpunk forebears. He's got a pretty fantastic series of short, hilarious, and extremely useful and practical tutorials for Blender on his channel, a
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Most of this tracks, except for picking Gerard O'Neill for the reason Bezos is into dystopian futurism. O'Neill's a real deal physicist - he's the person who first theorized that you could use storage rings as the basis
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I don't really agree with the premise of the article, but my sustained typing throughput sits around 140wpm, and for 10s bursts can hit 170+. This is WAY faster than I can talk. But I don't think this typing speed provides me the
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by cthalupa 3y ago
Other people have covered the linguistic aspect enough so no need for me to rehash it, but, the picture in that article is far more blue than any traffic light I've seen in Tokyo in my months there. If I had to describe them with a sin
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by cthalupa 3y ago
I'm not really seeing any argument in the article that this is causation vs. correlation. I know there have been studies done on this, but even anecdotally, from the people I am aware of via Facebook, friends of friends, etc., the ones
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by cthalupa 3y ago
English-language publications, databases, etc. have largely settled on the term 'Albums' referring by default to only studio albums. Live albums, EPs, etc. are referred to more specifically. It's not universally true, but if
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by cthalupa 3y ago
> That's not bad in any form or manner. I really enjoy generative AI and think that we're better off with it being in the open than controlled by specific corporations. I also think this is an absurd comment. People are already

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