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OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired. The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.

This is public now but happened in 2019. It wouldn't be news to OpenAI's board.

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He has been accused on Twitter of "climbing in her bed non-consensually" when he was 13 (and she 4). She has also explicitly said she doesn't actually want legal action for "experiences between a baby child and a tween child", again suggesting that anything that happened only happened when he was a child. She also has a history of mental illness.

>She also has a history of mental illness.

Was this diagnosed before he climbed into her bed when she was 4 y.o.? I'm no psychologist and I don't know what her own diagnosis involves but it seems that this diagnosis could be identifying a condition that resulted from abuse dealt by someone that she normally would trust.

Overall from what I have read the last few weeks Altman seems to be an unethical sleeze who decides how to proceed on everything based on an analysis of what he can get for himself - the perfect type of person who would abuse someone who he saw as being in a weaker position, like his little sister with no thought to how that would affect her later in life.

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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If the article is based on facts then... is this not an example of corruption?

It could be an example of Sam Altman making incredible investment choices. Or, yes, it could be corruption. Have to investigate to know one way or the other.

Literally incredible.

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post #75

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Bill Gates has been pledging to give away all his money for the last 20 years.. :-) In 2008: "Bill Gates pledges to leave his £30billion fortune to charity... rather than his children" - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027878/Bill-Gates-... In 2022: "Bill Gates pledges to donate ‘virtually all’ of $113bn fortune to his foundation" - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/15/bill-gates-b... In the mean…

It actually is, if you care about where it goes

With that much money you can just pay an entire team to find places to send it for you.

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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post #22

Adam Neumann of WeWork owned the trademark to "We" and a whole bunch of buildings which he leased back to "WeWork". That worked out very well for him.

While Adam Neumann did something fishy it's much different from Altman conflict of interest. OpenAI is a non-profit and Altman is hired CEO not the owner of the company.

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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post #53

This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired. The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.

And yet in multiple interviews he says he is not in it for the money. Saying that you are not in it for the money is becoming like a fashion statement. What’s wrong in saying that you’re in it for both money and passion?

I personally find the presentation of corporate missions in quasi-religious terminology extremely off-putting. The company might be doing great things, but there ought to be cultural space left for things much more important than companies.

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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post #53

This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired. The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.

And yet in multiple interviews he says he is not in it for the money. Saying that you are not in it for the money is becoming like a fashion statement. What’s wrong in saying that you’re in it for both money and passion?

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Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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I'm reminded of how Eskimos apocryphally have 30 different words for snow

Apparently a hoax - http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/EskimoHoax.pdf But the main point of your comment still stands :-)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocryphal

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Come on. A guy mentions Sam's sister in his post and it's immediately flagged and hidden xD this site sometimes, seriously, the techbro team picking and worshipping is something else haha

Regardless if you like or dislike Altman, it is just a constant distraction to bring up his sister. I think most/all have heard it 10x by now. It’s very old, there has never been more evidence and his sister is mentally unwell. It serves no purpose to a a thread about OpenAI buying chips from a company he is invested in.

Does anyone get tired by the tech bros label always being thrown out when people disagree. Can we not all grow up and if we are to have disagreements, actually discuss it constructively?

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