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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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This totally business-as-usual post from Greg Brockman happened 1 hour before the one from OpenAI: https://x.com/gdb/status/1725595967045398920 https://x.com/openai/status/1725611900262588813 How crazy is that?! (Edit 2 minutes after) .. and /there/ Greg quit!! https://x.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559

is it silicon valley cool to not use uppercase letters?

Not being snarky. A genuine question.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#664

Greg just quit too: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559

Yes this is even more surprising. Why would the board annouche he would continue with the company just to have him resign 1 hour later? Clearly the board would not have written that decision without his consent.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#665

> All: our poor single-core server process has smoke coming out its ears, as you can imagine. -dang YC Summer 2024: MoreCore is hiring scaling engineers to speed up HN by recycling old Athlons

> Sorry! Performance improvements are inching closer...

@dang, why have you been saying you're working on performance improvements re: pagination for three years[0]? Are there any prior architectual decisions holding you back? The "Click more" on very popular topics has turned into a bit of a meme.

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=2&prefix=true&que...

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#670

I'm going to throw the theory out there that Sam leaked/sold the full GPT models to Microsoft (or another competitor). A lot of other theories don't match because the board was in an extreme hurry to get him out (voting him out in the middle of the night, not even waiting for markets to close to announce it), must have proof of serious misconduct and the need to immediately distance themselves from Sam (otherwise the…

> not even waiting for markets to close to announce it

They are not a public company.

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