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"King of the Cannibals": How Sam Altman Took over Silicon Valley

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Post by andai »

tptacek wrote: post #172
alternative_a wrote: post #170

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The argument: Rich people control the world. Rich people own the media. Rich people run boards. Rich people built up cults of personality. Influencers to lend credibility for their long terms plans. Rich people then pick a rich friend or ‘make’ a new friend, and then promote their friend. Rich people’s friends typically after their role is done are found to be sociopaths and liars and frauds. But this is OK because r…

The upper middle class controls the world. Control of boards doesn't matter. Rich people don't control the media, because the upper middle class won't let them. Sam Altman does not secretly control the world; see above.

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Post by nox100 »

dwaltrip wrote: post #171
nox100 wrote: post #125

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I've definitely seen Bard beat ChatGPT once in a while. I don't use bard much but when ChatGPT gives me an answer I know is wrong I go see if Bard did any better and yes, sometimes Bard is better, not often enough for me to switch ... yet?

Gpt-3.5 or 4?

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Post by sinfulprogeny »

Zetobal wrote: post #30
dbspin wrote: post #26

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Altman's sister's 'memories' of abuse were developed in adulthood [1]. Recovered memories are deeply suspect, and a number of serious miscarriages of justice have happened because of them. Most infamously the 'satanic panic' trials of the eighties and early nineties. Elizabeth Loftus has done lots of good work on the dubious nature of eyewitness testimony, and recovered memories in particular [3]. Essentially, they'r…

boy do I need to have a talk with all my trauma patients...

Hey girl some dude on hacker news says your trauma is fake

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Post by mcpackieh »

dbspin wrote: post #144
mcpackieh wrote: post #140

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> In any case, I don't think anyone is qualified to credit or discredit a claim in a medical or psychologically diagnostic sense without a clinical interview (something that few psychiatrists are qualified to perform by the way). That's not what I'm doing here. What I'm pointing out is the unreliability of recovered memory. Uh huh... and in another comment in this discussion you've gone on to speculate that she has B…

It would be consistent with motivating the confused cognition (e.g.: her rambling and contradictory statements in the article linked by OP), and producing false or disingenuous allegations. However so could lots of other things. My point wasn't to diagnose this person, but to make clear "it seems pretty clear something terrible happened to her and was invalidated" is a dubious rationale for believing any kind of alle…

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Post by chillingeffect »

tptacek wrote: post #129
chillingeffect wrote: post #97

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It's what's not in the article that's exceptional. Soft-balling Thiel in Bezos' paper is the first of the lacunae.

Your claim here would be that the Washington Post has laid off Peter Thiel? That's something you can only say if you don't subscribe to the Post.

Ummmm. Did someone mis-measure a microdose? Honestly scratching my head wondering what your comment refers to...

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Post by dang »

mcpackieh wrote: post #184
dbspin wrote: post #144

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It would be consistent with motivating the confused cognition (e.g.: her rambling and contradictory statements in the article linked by OP), and producing false or disingenuous allegations. However so could lots of other things. My point wasn't to diagnose this person, but to make clear "it seems pretty clear something terrible happened to her and was invalidated" is a dubious rationale for believing any kind of alle…

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Post by svnt »

peterfirefly wrote: post #164
svnt wrote: post #65

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Ah yes, the woman who provided paid testimony on behalf of Ghislaine Maxwell, Harvey Weinstein, OJ Simpson, Robert Durst, among others. Who better to invoke to smear another insufficiently diabolical human? https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/ghislaine-maxwell/false-... edit: If you want to get a clearer (or fuzzier) picture of this career expert witness, this piece in the New Yorker is fascinating: https://www.newyo…

> , among others. Which includes the Duke Lacrosse players -- who were actually innocent. I read the (long!) New Yorker article and I was left with three impressions: psychologists and their families are really weird people, I don't like her as a person, and she is right that memories aren't very reliable.

> Which includes the Duke Lacrosse players -- who were actually innocent.

She did say she takes every case (although she drew the line at a Nazi). Memory is unreliable, but it’s tough to argue that was the issue in the lacrosse case.

Leveraging that against a person who is risking everything to get justice against a person in power is a lot to put on them. Preventing that pressure opens up a way for manipulators to get through. Gödel probably has something to say about all that.

As an aside it’s interesting that in specific comments referencing the recent Altman events I have been repeatedly downvoted to -3.

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Post by svnt »

dbspin wrote: post #103
svnt wrote: post #59

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Probably this, where she is discussing her first memories on a podcast: > Annie then basically proceeds to mention that “panic attack” doesn’t quite feel like her first memory, but doesn’t decisively settle on a “first memory.” She concludes the article: “TBD on the first memory of that history. Here’s to exploring.” > This becomes relevant later on, as Annie ends up remembering an earlier memory than her panic attac…

Her pattern of behaviour is also consistent with the bpd, which frequently involve delusions of persecution. Suicidal ideation and severe anxiety are unfortunately not rare in adolescence either, and certainly don't evidence sexual abuse - when not reported or remembered at the time.

Is your position then that if a pre-adolescent child does not immediately report abuse with objective evidence and coherent testimony that we can only conclude nothing happened?
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