"King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley
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"King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley
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#3It's nice to occasionally read a piece that reminds you what good journalism is.
On and off record sources, people as complex individuals with multiple truths, anchoring to key chronological events, and only moderate clickbaiting and defensible hyperbole.
Nothing particularly new, but a solid brief. Kudos to the Post and Dwoskin, Fisher, and Tiku.
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#4This kind of gives away the reason for his firing.
He was pursuing his vision of AI incluing a chipset specific to LLM processing that would break nvidias hold of the market.
Apparently the BoD didnt like it. They should have just been more forthcoming about it.
Some CEOs would get fired for moonlighting. Others (Elon Musk, etc) build massive companies and make their existing companies more resilient and lasting. The fact that employees closed ranks around him tell you which kind of CEO he is, and the BoD chose to ignore that at their loss
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#5It's nice to occasionally read a piece that reminds you what good journalism is. On and off record sources, people as complex individuals with multiple truths, anchoring to key chronological events, and only moderate clickbaiting and defensible hyperbole. Nothing particularly new, but a solid brief. Kudos to the Post and Dwoskin, Fisher, and Tiku.
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#6This kind of gives away the reason for his firing. He was pursuing his vision of AI incluing a chipset specific to LLM processing that would break nvidias hold of the market. Apparently the BoD didnt like it. They should have just been more forthcoming about it. Some CEOs would get fired for moonlighting. Others (Elon Musk, etc) build massive companies and make their existing companies more resilient and lasting. The…
It seems there's more to it than that [1]. Altman did a surprisingly good job of cultivating a "nice guy" image among the tech crowd, but I personally don't buy it.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/what-sam-altman-did-so-bad-h...
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#7It's nice to occasionally read a piece that reminds you what good journalism is. On and off record sources, people as complex individuals with multiple truths, anchoring to key chronological events, and only moderate clickbaiting and defensible hyperbole. Nothing particularly new, but a solid brief. Kudos to the Post and Dwoskin, Fisher, and Tiku.
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Sam Altman is a pretty polarizing figure, seemingly by virtue of both who he is and what he's touched.
This article has a lot of pros and cons to the man, all of which seem to track with what other sources have reported about him.
E.g. the "if he cares about you you, he really loves you; if he doesn't care about you, you don't exist" brutalist attention filter that a commenter here reported seeing (in one of the ad nauseum OAI CEO threads)
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Sam Altman is a pretty polarizing figure, seemingly by virtue of both who he is and what he's touched. This article has a lot of pros and cons to the man, all of which seem to track with what other sources have reported about him. E.g. the "if he cares about you you, he really loves you; if he doesn't care about you, you don't exist" brutalist attention filter that a commenter here reported seeing (in one of the ad n…
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#9This kind of gives away the reason for his firing. He was pursuing his vision of AI incluing a chipset specific to LLM processing that would break nvidias hold of the market. Apparently the BoD didnt like it. They should have just been more forthcoming about it. Some CEOs would get fired for moonlighting. Others (Elon Musk, etc) build massive companies and make their existing companies more resilient and lasting. The…
It seems there's more to it than that [1]. Altman did a surprisingly good job of cultivating a "nice guy" image among the tech crowd, but I personally don't buy it. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/what-sam-altman-did-so-bad-h...
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems there's more to it than that [1]. Altman did a surprisingly good job of cultivating a "nice guy" image among the tech crowd, but I personally don't buy it. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/what-sam-altman-did-so-bad-h...
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Apparently, but family drama feels a bit... weird to use for character assessment. Especially when a ton of money is involved.
There are a lot of inter-family dynamics and motivations that cause people to do things.
Not saying she's right. Not saying he's right. Just saying that whole situation is probably too close to home (literally) to opine globally outside it.