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by tempsy 3y ago
Feel free to going into detail about what exactly this applies to. I’m not talking about buying a house that is considered an appreciating asset. I mean going to dinner and buying clothes and other disposable goods/services.
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by tempsy 3y ago
I've never had the thought "let me spend a bunch of money on disposable things because it'll be more expensive a year from now" I don't think that's how most people think about their purchasing decisions at all
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by tempsy 3y ago
I think the general idea is a lot of people feel pressured to be on social media when they wouldn't otherwise be on social media if no one else was
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by tempsy 3y ago
It turns people into consumer sheep, which is actually a positive for a capitalistic society.
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by tempsy 3y ago
the more outwardly successful someone is by modern standards (ceo, celebrities, other powerful people) the more likely it is they are ethically compromised in some way you don't reach the top without screwing over a lot of people along
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by tempsy 3y ago
I don’t really understand how this is a new thing. The claim is that children today are being “left behind by suburbia” as if that wasn’t true of older generations of children and we as a society once all lived in an urban utopia and now it
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by tempsy 3y ago
I'm not sure why you've assumed smart people aren't worried. I'm fairly certain Elon has discussed AI risks many times, and was in part why he left OpenAI.
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Millennials say they need $525,000 a year to be happy(businessinsider.com)
7 points by tempsy 3y ago|3 comments
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by tempsy 3y ago
Emmett Shear is a YC insider and didn't hesitate...
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by tempsy 3y ago
I’m more convinced this whole thing was Adam D’Angelo feeling blindsided by the GPT store which is effectively what his Poe platform does, and then convincing Ilya and the two other board members to agree with some hand wavy explanation to
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by tempsy 3y ago
not sure what you think should happen. there’s a limited number of seats per flight. if there’s 10 available seats left and 8 suddenly booked why should the last ones be priced the same
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by tempsy 3y ago
All 3 having some connection to effective altruism, which Dustin is at the center of, is not coincidental.
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by tempsy 3y ago
OAI cares more about the likelihood 90% of the employees leave than what Sam does or doesn't do. The employees mass resigning depends entirely on whether Sam actually becomes a real employee or not. That hasn't happened yet.
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by tempsy 3y ago
All the employees threatening to leave depends on him actually becoming a Microsoft employee. That hasn't happened yet. So everyone is waiting for confirmation that he's indeed an employee because otherwise it just looks like a bl
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by tempsy 3y ago
Point is he loses credibility if the board doesn't think he's actually going through with joining Microsoft and using it as a negotiating tactic to scare them. Because the whole "the entire company will quit and join Sam&quot
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by tempsy 3y ago
Hotels maybe, but airfare is not going to change because you're in incognito or clear a browser. I rarely see any price differences between an Expedia and booking direct. If an airline was messing with prices based on something with yo
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by tempsy 3y ago
Apparently Sam isn't in the Microsoft employee directly yet, so he isn't technically hired at all. Seems like he loses a bit of leverage over the board if they think he & Microsoft are actually bluffing and the employment anno
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by tempsy 3y ago
Not sure what you're implying. Why would the price change in that situation.
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by tempsy 3y ago
"Pretty much" implying there are exceptions, yes, but it's not the norm in the US for list prices to be inclusive of all fees and taxes.
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by tempsy 3y ago
Taxes are fully determined by departing and arriving airports. They don't need your IP.
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by tempsy 3y ago
The other thing is he's already rich and can make bridge burning decisions like this because he doesn't exactly need help from anyone who might be upset with him about his decision.
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by tempsy 3y ago
ironically airfares are one of the most transparently priced services in the whole country because Obama passed a law that forced them to show the final price with fees and taxes included in the list price when searching pretty much no othe
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by tempsy 3y ago
Obama passed a law that forced airlines to show the final price (fees + taxes) in the list price, so it's been like that for many years now. Before that it was much more like hotels where you're not shown the final price until the
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by tempsy 3y ago
It's more like Microsoft set themselves up to have outsized control over OAI long before this weekend.
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by tempsy 3y ago
being a lowly millionaire doesn’t get you much these days. almost certainly anyone who was hired into a mid level or senior role was probably already at least a millionaire
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by tempsy 3y ago
Yes, but you rarely see two people who run in the same circles/part of the same OG YC class publicly criticize one or the other.
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by tempsy 3y ago
Well the value of the company has almost certainly taken a large hit, especially now that Sam is definitely not returning And no way Thrive, which was just about to buy up employee shares at $80-$90b, is going to go through with the tender
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by tempsy 3y ago
The issue is they’ve burned a million bridges with what they’ve done. No one in SV is going to be on their side in any of this. So hard to see how they succeed if nobody wants the perception of being on their team.
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by tempsy 3y ago
Yeah Emmett Shear seems like an odd choice if they’re worried about retention because 1) Twitch was never known to be a particularly great place to work and 2) he stepped down for some reason and not because Twitch was in an amazing place o
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by tempsy 3y ago
How so? Ilya won. OpenAI is now more his than it was before Sam was fired.

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