skygazer

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by skygazer 3y ago
Oh, I don’t know, when most adults are so inexperienced, they’re typically timid before committing monumental and irrevocable acts. I mean, granted, given the strength of his aptitudes, perhaps he’s not as well rounded, with narrower range
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by skygazer 3y ago
This is not original reporting, it’s just summarizing others (now seemingly outdated) reporting and speculation of twitter users with no first hand knowledge, although I guess it provides a coherent narrative of the twitter speculation, but
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by skygazer 3y ago
You are far more charitable than I. (I have no idea why I’m worked up. I don’t work at OAI.) They pulled the dumbest virtual corporate hostage crisis, for ostensibly flimsy reasons, and even has mainstream media wondering whether they’re ju
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by skygazer 3y ago
This could well be, but I still struggle to grasp it. He seemed so much smarter. Were they manipulative or beguiling? Does he cave to the merest social pressure? And that Quora CEO should have know such flimsy excuses were BS and this would
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by skygazer 3y ago
I must admit, the first clause of my sentence was mostly a vehicle for the second clause, the punchline — sole-proprietors not approving of themselves. It loses a bit in the explaining. Although whatever that 95% is a proxy for, they clearl
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by skygazer 3y ago
By the dozens of employee accounts I’ve read in the last 72 hours they all spoke with affection, and I could not find any detractors. A repeated theme was that he always took the time to listen and he cared and went out of his way. I’ve nev
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by skygazer 3y ago
You may want to double check that. Their letter was in support of the CEO from 3 days ago. Although you’re right they don’t support the new CEO appointed within the last 24 hrs, but they don’t explicitly mention that, but they do lambast th
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by skygazer 3y ago
None. A CEO with >95% approval rating is unheard of, even considering sole-proprietorships
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by skygazer 3y ago
Noticed that. She did soften that stance later. She seemed oddly invested.
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by skygazer 3y ago
Ugh. I’m not keen on AGI being an eventual Microsoft product, or after this circus, even the hangers on at Open AI. Hope it’s still decades off and this all is a silly side show footnote.
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by skygazer 3y ago
Oh wow, she’s definitely taken sides. I wonder if Elon will be paying their legal bills. She alludes to shadowy machinations. This reaches an end, then gets wackier, and repeats.
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by skygazer 3y ago
I would think that the board would have tried to (or is still continuing to try to) pick someone to try to placate Microsoft, other than Altman.
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by skygazer 3y ago
Your $20/mo isn’t covering their costs. They sought additional financing.
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by skygazer 3y ago
I think Ilya is getting what he wanted. Although, that may yet have disastrous consequences for the company if employees follow through on mass quitting, thus freeing him up. But if they can quickly prevent people leaving in the short term,
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by skygazer 3y ago
Oh, then my apologies, it's unclear to me what you're arguing; That the disaster they find themselves in wasn't foreseeable? That would imply they couldn’t have considered that Altman was beloved by vital and devoted employee
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by skygazer 3y ago
You're arguing their most viable path was to fire him, wreak havoc and immediately seek to rehire and further empower him whilst diminishing themselves in the process? It's so convoluted, it just might work! Whether fulfilling the
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by skygazer 3y ago
Competence is generally about effectiveness of execution, and less about intent. This was a foreseeable hot mess executed with staggering naïveté.
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by skygazer 3y ago
Perhaps HN visitors are not benign, I have no idea. They mostly seem reasonable and friendly to me. I’m only saying calling groups of people you don’t know any particular thing, who are not homogeneous, is fraught and uncharitable. Not to m
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by skygazer 3y ago
Top comments aren’t stable. Just give it a few minutes to reach obscurity, or bounce back again some tens of minutes later.
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by skygazer 3y ago
If your “for all you know” supposition that he’s a criminal were correct, then it would be criminal to try to bring him back. In that unlikely case, I can assure you my opinion of the board is unlikely to improve. It may be a black box to u
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by skygazer 3y ago
Typically it would be framed amicably, without so much axe-grinding, particularly for public release. Even ChatGPT itself would have written a more balanced release, and advised against such shenanigans. I enjoy that irony.
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by skygazer 3y ago
I’m not advocating people double down on stupid, or that correcting your mistakes is bad optics. I’m simply saying they’re “increasingly revealing” pre-existing unfitness at each ham-fisted step. I think our increase in knowledge of their f
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by skygazer 3y ago
Man, the board already looked reckless and incompetent, but this solidifies the appearance. You can do crazy ill-advised things, but if you unwaveringly commit, we’ll always wonder if you’re secretly a genius. But when you immediately backt
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by skygazer 3y ago
I think the opinion that the grand parent identifies as sociopathic wasn’t the board’s or even Altman’s, but of the masses on HN shocked by the event. The opinions of the majority here are the “sociopathy.”
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by skygazer 3y ago
That’s a broad, uncharitable brush with which to paint everyone else. Maybe we need a razor: hesitate to attribute to sociopathy that which can reasonably be explained by a benign difference of opinion.
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by skygazer 3y ago
He worked at 9to5mac, not MacRumors. https://9to5mac.com/author/markgurman/
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by skygazer 3y ago
macOS gets iPhone hand-me-downs. Apple’s cross platform endeavors start on the phone, now. Catalyst replacement apps were initially abysmal, and are glacially improving, but have not approached their former Mac greatness, and probably won’
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by skygazer 3y ago
I’ve been buying Novamin on Amazon. I just make sure that the Amazon product name/description says Canadian and NOVAMIN, so that if they send the American Fluoride Sensodyne, I can return it. I make sure it ships Amazon Prime and allow
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by skygazer 3y ago
I have an overcast next chapter action triggered by a Siri shortcut called “skip ad” — so I can just say “Siri, Skip Ad”. It works only if the podcast pervasively chapterizes of course, but thankfully most of mine do.
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by skygazer 3y ago
Calling these speculative things laws drives me bonkers and muddies public understanding, as the public thinks of laws as settled and inviolate, and that theories are speculative -- while that's not accurate in scientific usage, I real

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