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by maxdoop 3y ago
Is there any way to disagree with Helen and not be misogynistic in your view? How would that look?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Oh, cmon. Why must people reach like this? How about we look at credentials, merit, and consensus as opposed to “what gender are they?”
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Where is this blind trust for the board coming from? The board provided zero rationale for firing Sam.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
No, I think you're mistaking my tone. I was genuinely curious, because it's rare to see someone with a sure view on this mad saga! And I wanted to learn a bit more from the somewhat-less-popular side (I do think there is an odd cu
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by maxdoop 3y ago
98% of employees legitimately signed the letter wishing Sam to be reinstated, so I’m not sure how media or investors play in to that at all.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Dude, you’re all over this thread and have such a strange bias against Sam and the current employees. Can I ask, out of genuine curiosity, why you find the board to be OK in this situation and why you find Sam / the employees behind hi
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by maxdoop 3y ago
I think it’s wierd the dismissive way many folks in this thread speak about it all. “Sam isn’t important. Employees are weirdos. The board is just fine. Everyone calm down.” That’s more wierd than anything happening on Twitter.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Can literally anyone provide even a 0.001% plausible sounding reason as to why this all was started in the first place? Nothing makes sense.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
In what way did he save something?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
I often worry that I’m under qualified for my work. But seeing how this board manages a $90,000,000,000 company, and is this silly/naive, I now feel a bit better knowing many people are faking it.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
What’s there to believe? He made a bad, poorly thought through decision.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
On Friday, the overwhelming take on HN was that Ilya was “the good guy” and was concerned about principal. Now, it’s kinda obvious that all the claims made about Sam — like “he’s in it for fame and money” — might apply more to Ilya.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Is there anything that would persuade you this isn’t some sneaky media frenzy orchestrated by Altman?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
You are 100% missing something. You don’t see the current value nor potential of what these LLMs are capable of. They are as “dumb” as they will ever be right now. To act like it’s just a chat bot is the silliest take.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
I know this is dumb of me but man is this enthralling to follow
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by maxdoop 3y ago
And satya seems to have been caught off guard as well. What is happening?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Thank you -- I saw the same thing and it's about the only thing that makes sense. But why would he leave OpenAI to run for president?! He has zero chance, unless (here comes my tinfoil) OpenAI has made something dangerous / life-
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by maxdoop 3y ago
If you Google Sam, the search result showing his Twitter handle says, "I am running for president in 2024 as a Democrat". Is this why?
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Ask HN: How do you escape, or better handle, the rat race?
6 points by maxdoop 3y ago|3 comments
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by maxdoop 3y ago
And what do humans do?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
So this uses an OpenAI assistant, then? This is really cool!
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Can we not ruin HN with political stuff and claims like this?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Good grief. So what is thinking, then? Can you prove that humans aren’t just predicting what comes next given a series of inputs ?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
And so, what do you think reasoning is? Or how would you know if something can reason or not ?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
What does it mean to understand?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
How is this in any way some retort to the claim that LLMs don’t understand something? I could ask the same questions to a child, and they’d respond with equally bad takes. Is the child incapable of understanding ?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
We know exactly what an LLM does? How does that differ from a brain?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
And generally, people like yourself make opposite claims with equally no backing. What does it mean to understand something? To think? How is a human any different than predicting the next “thing” given a series of inputs?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
And what would it look like is something were capable of truly “understanding”?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Ugh, again with the “they don’t understand”. What does it mean to understand something, even?

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