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That is a separate issue. His comments made the incredibly talented researchers at OpenAI look really bad. I suspect this is one of the prime reasons he is leaving.
Have some examples of how he made them look really bad? Not disputing, just curious.
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Re: OpenAI Supporters
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Ah, the sort of editor who knows just enough about language to be dangerous.
The injunction against ending with prepositions entirely comes from people wanting to turn English into Latin (similarly for split infinitives). There is no basis to deny it, and it's one of those rules where trying to adhere to it makes things harder, not easier, to understand.
Yes, and relatively recently too (lots of this sort of "all languages should be Latin" nonsense is from the 1700s).
You probably know the old joke, a visitor is on the Harvard campus, and says to one of the passing students:
Visitor: Excuse me, can you tell me where the library's at?
Student: Here at Harvard, sir, we do not end a sentence with a preposition.
Visitor: I do beg your pardon. Allow me to rephrase my question. Can you tell me where the library's at, you pompous asshole?
[I mean, if one is going to make up silly rules, at least they should have enough knowledge to know that the relevant domain in which the ridiculous rule would be applied isn't the sentence, but the clause.]
Re: OpenAI Supporters
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If I was working for Open AI, or had donated or provided funding, I would probably be angry that Elon moved a great engineer to Tesla because he thought that was more important. I would wonder if we could truly build a great team of if SpaceX and Tesla would just poach anyone exceptional.
I would hope that exceptional individuals would work wherever they choose. In most cases the folks who stick with non-profits like that they're working for a non-profit, even though the financial rewards are smaller than industry.
People will generally go where they are paid the most, especially when choosing between two companies both working on very exciting AI projects such as Tesla and OpenAI. And Elon is setting (or at least influencing) what both companies are willing to offer him.
Re: OpenAI Supporters
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I would hope that exceptional individuals would work wherever they choose. In most cases the folks who stick with non-profits like that they're working for a non-profit, even though the financial rewards are smaller than industry.
People will generally go where they are paid the most, especially when choosing between two companies both working on very exciting AI projects such as Tesla and OpenAI. And Elon is setting (or at least influencing) what both companies are willing to offer him.
OpenAI is not a company. It is a non-profit.