Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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New Yorker article on Sam Altman dropped. Aaron Swartz apparently called him a sociopath. The article itself also had wat looked like an animated AI generated image of Altman so here is the archive.is link (if you can get the latter to load, I was having troubles).
"New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI."
In 2024 Ozy Brennan was indignant about Nonlinear Fund, the "incubator of AI-safety meta-charities" which lived as global nomads, hired a live-in personal assistant, asked her to smuggle drugs across borders for them, let a kind-of-colleague take her to bed, then did not pay her regularly and in full.
The correct number of times for the word “yachting” to occur in a description of an effective altruist job is zero. I might make an exception if it’s prefaced with “convincing people to donate to effective charities instead of spending money on.”
Trace popped up in the comments:
Inasmuch as EA follows your preferences, I suspect it will either fail as a subculture or deserve to fail. You present a vision of a subculture with little room for grace or goodwill, a space where everyone is constantly evaluating each other and trying to decide: are you worthy to stand in our presence? Do you belong in our hallowed, select group? Which skeletons are in your closet? Where are your character flaws? What should we know, what should we see, that allows us to exclude you?
Ozy stands with us on this one buddy.
i love seeing tracing pop up! a true heel to toe bootlicker incapable of seeing himself as anything but the MOST independent thinker
a space where everyone is constantly evaluating each other and trying to decide: are you worthy to stand in our presence? Do you belong in our hallowed, select group?
It's not that already?
That part of Trace's response was odd because one of Brennan's themes was "we should have less cults of personality and more peers working together." That seems naive but at least Brennan agrees that cults of personality are bad and Nonlinear Fund needed to be fired into the sun.
Which skeletons are in your closet?
I'm sure you already have lists of those and are ready to publish them Trace.
Starting this Stubsack off, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have threatened to blow up OpenAI's Stargate datacentre in Abu Dhabi.
They've already bombed commercial data centres before, so I'm inclined to believe this isn't an empty threat.
Waiting for Yud to provide his whole-chested support for IRGC any second
aside from everything else, as posted by ed zitron previously i doubt that anything is really getting built there