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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
but but gais hear me out, TikTok is the REAL problem here! /s
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
lol
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
These tech giants' finances are public, because they are publicly listed companies. All of them are sitting on fat stacks of cash and positive YoY revenue growth. They have absolutely zero chance of running out of money even if each on
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
If the text completion algorithm is sufficiently advanced enough then we wouldn't be able to tell it's not AGI, especially if it has access to state-of-the-art research and can modify its own code/weights. I don't think
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
The speculations are rampant precisely because the board has said absolute nothing since the leadership transition announcement on Friday. If they had openly given literally any imaginable reason to fire Sam Altman, the ratio of employees t
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Yes, but that doesn't make it any more ethical especially since most layoffs over the past year aren't merit-based at all.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
What money do the independent board directors stand to gain? They have no equity in the company and their resumes have more than enough employable credentials (before this past Friday) to warrant not caring for money.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
And evidently the employees have reacted as they likely would. The two points given sound like mundane corporate mess ups that are hardly worth firing the CEO in such a drastic fashion.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Similar to "<involved party> declined to comment" seen in many news articles. It signals that the reporter reached out to give them a chance to tell their side of the story, and the resulting article isn't an opinionate
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
It indicates that BI and the authors verified these sources were current OpenAI employees instead of some unaffiliated novelty account on a RP spree, and have staked their reputation to that claim. Standard journalism stuff.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
More evidence the layoffs are 100% BS. Suddenly there's surplus headcount and magical budgets out of nothing, all to accommodate several hundreds of people with way-above-market-average TCs. It's almost like they were never in dan
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
By the time this saga resolves, the number of threads linked here could suffice as chapters of a book
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Fairness of the electoral system and fairness of the election(s) are two separate debates.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
I think a lot of them, possibly including Altman, Greg, and the three top researchers, are under the assumption that the stint at Microsoft will be temporary until they figure out something better.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
It depends on the arrangement of the new entity inside Microsoft, and whether the new entity is a temporary gig before Sam & co. move to a new goal. If the board had just openly announced this was about battling Microsoft's control
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
This whole saga is clearly not related to those allegations, which had been floating around long before this past Friday and did not make any impact due to a presumable lack of evidence.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
High IQ isn't a superpower. Highly intelligent people can still be misled in many possible ways. Although we still have no idea what actually happened so this is all speculation.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
There's a non-zero chance he was also used as a pawn to deliver the message, but who could be manipulating him then? There's so little actual detail give by anyone in the loop and I think that's what's amplifying the dra
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Seems like the board just didn't explain any of this to the staff at all. So of course they are going to take the side that could signal business as usual instead of siding with the people trying to destroy the hottest tech company on
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
If it was about selling to Microsoft, Ilya and the board could've just announced that's the reason. The thing is they didn't, and Emmett didn't say what it was even after being briefed before joining. I don't think
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Literally no one involved has said what was the original reason. Mira, Ilya & the rest of the board didn't tell. Sam & Greg didn't tell. Satya & other investors didn't tell. None of the staff incl. Karpathy were t
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Corporate shareholder interest has been proven to be short sighted again and again throughout history. Believing such entities can properly prepare for a singularity event is more delusional than asking a fruit fly to fly an aircraft.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Most Microsoft products have miserable UX because of this enabling mentality. Someone has to come out and say "enough is enough". A broad index fund sans Microsoft will do just fine. That's the whole point of a broad index fu
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Being able to raise money doesn't necessarily translate into success. Perhaps his new crew won't be able to replicate the secret sauce. Or Satya just gave terms favourable enough to convince him at least for now to avoid giving of
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
It's confusing because no one beyond the direct negotiating parties knows exactly why any of this is happening in the first place. The media scoops about commercialization disputes don't seem that important to warrant such a drama
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
It depends on what they are allowed to do as employees, which is probably in the process of being figured out right now.
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Based on Andrej Karpathy's comment on Twitter today, the board never explained any of this to the staff. So siding with Altman seems like a far better option since his return would mean a much higher likelihood of continuing business a
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Please just read on exactly what happened in the accident before making comments about irrelevant frill like the speed limit: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woman-run-autono...
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Witholding the footage was more than just a mistake. If they are being this dishonest over something that wasn't even entirely their fault, what else could they be hiding? And no, most human drivers would easily detect a human being st
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by ssnistfajen 3y ago
Adding the words "integrity" and "honesty" to the dictionary of many tech companies could do them a lot of good, really.

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