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

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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.

You pay a whole team of tax advisors, and lobbyists, so that no politician of enough weight in 20 years, says the magic word: "Billionaire Tax"

"Global billionaire tax could yield $250 billion annually, study says" - https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-billionaire-...

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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.

You are being dishonest. She’s accused him of far more than that! But being that HN is ran by PG zealots, actually discussion of these allegations will be muzzled before it hurts anyone’s bottom line…

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Who can forget "the orb", altman seems like a complete clown who lucked into the holy grail that is openai: https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/03/21/sam-altman-orb-scan-ey...

> The orb isn’t a perfect sphere but two halves that come together at an angle that matches the orbit of the Earth Can't tell if this is meaningless, the reporter just failed to convey its actual meaning, or I am too dumb to understand

What I think it means, looking at pictures of the orb is that it is indeed made of two halves, with a well defined seam line. The bottom is flat, presumably so that it doesn't roll over, making it not a perfect sphere. And when laid down on that flat spot, the seam between the two halves is at an angle that seems to correspond to the earth axial tilt (about 23.5°).

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.

Who can forget "the orb", altman seems like a complete clown who lucked into the holy grail that is openai: https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/03/21/sam-altman-orb-scan-ey...

Yeah the instant I start thinking maybe this guy is fine I remember Worldcoin, which is either utterly delusional or a scam. If it's the former then why is this guy being handed the keys to insanely important positions? If it's the latter, then... why is this guy being handed the keys to insanely important positions?

If you don't know what Worldcoin is, look it up. It doesn't really need any commentary.

The fact that this dude was basically handed YCombinator and then handed OpenAI shows how incestuous the inside-most track of Silicon Valley is. I guess it's pretty much identical to Hollywood.

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

Glad someone else calls this out! HNs user base really loves the smell of their own farts.

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Imagine if Elon's companies sourced from each other. The travesty! I see nothing wrong here.

You don't think that's at least a bit of an apples to oranges comparison?

I don't. And I'll take the points hit.

OpenAI isn't a government agency or entity. They're free to no-bid or to use and purchase resources that someone within the company has ties to. The replies here are loaded with accusations of fraud; A typical HN rush to judgement.

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I find it interesting that so many people here are quick to defend a person’s right to moonlight on whatever they want, and the right of a person not to have their IP stolen by the company they work for. But when it’s a public figure suddenly we are on the side of the plantation owners..

Good for Sam, I say. Money aside he should be allowed to keep his interests separate. Just because this other company is AI related doesn’t mean it’s working in an area OpenAI was even interested in pursuing.

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Imagine if Elon's companies sourced from each other. The travesty! I see nothing wrong here.

Elon is the owner. Altman is a hired CEO.

And? Musk's companies are separate business entities.

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Was it or is this just projection? There could be conflict of interest or it could also be that OpenAI has no desire to get into the chip business.

It seems clear to me that a conflict of interest exists here. It’s also perfectly normal for a billionaire tech investor with some non-zero expertise in AI to be investing in AI chip makers. (It might seem more strange if he wasn’t.) The existence of such a conflict is not itself inherently a problem; these situations come up all the time, become disclosed, and extra scrutiny is placed on decisions where the conflict…

Good call out. I definitely used the wrong terminology here. A conflict of interest does exist, weather it was improper, hidden or otherwise improper for his role at OpenAI is something we don’t know and is not clear from this article alone.

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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.

That's a great strategy if you don't care where it goes. You'd probably be surprised how quickly money can disappear when you have people motivated to spend it.
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