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

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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.

> only happened when he was a child Between downplaying the significance of what he did and discrediting the victim i cant tell whether his followers have a similar past or simply bend over to anyone that projects power. I can understand this coming from people in countries where the cult of personality is still alive but not in the western world.

We don't know if he did anything. And what he is accused of doing is actually quite vague, and at any rate it dates since he was a child. Not a young man, not an adolescent, but a pre-pubescent child. How much can you hold against someone who possibly didn't even understand what he was doing, even assuming she is completely right that this happened (her whole family denies it).

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.

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?

It doesn't have to be about the money. Some people like like winning.

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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...

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…

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

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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 decide…

The point is that we don't know if what she is saying is true. I believe that she believes what she is saying, but that doesn't necessarily make it true. Per all that she has said, this is a memory from when she was 4 - it could be extremely distorted by now. Even if it is entirely true (her family denies it), he was a small child when doing it - it is very much believable that at 13 he wouldn't even fully understand what that means.

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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?

"What I see all over the place is people care about looking good while doing evil..." -- Elon Musk That is the problem with the modern era, your actions do not matter your words do... Words have become violence, but actual violence is excused. If you do not say the "correct words" your actions matter not. inversely as long as you say the "correct words" your actions matter not.

I don't think that's specific to the modern era. Was there ever a time when it wasn't like that?

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- You make a lot of money, do you? - I make, no, I paid enough for health insurance. I have no equity in OpenAI. - Really? That's interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FsL6GPesY&t=19s

Isn’t lying to congress criminal

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

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A nonbinding letter of intent in 2018? That is a limited downside unlimited upside kind of risk you take to fund extreme moon shots. Boom Supersonic did the same approach with United airlines, to fund a still undeveloped supersonic Airplane. A 1M investment like this is a hedge that has capped downside, restricted to Altman's personal money, and an infinite upside that gives an incentive to the founders to succeed. A…

Hope this makes it to the top. So much artificial outrage.

Seems fitting that there'd be artificially generated outrage about generative AI. ;-)
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