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Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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Re: Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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Sam Altman is a pathological liar https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/ex_openai_board_membe... https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/

On Reddit he doesn't even bother lying, he just straight up admits being a conman.

Yishan Wong describes the con: https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_bes... Altman admits it's true: https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_bes...

Re: Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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Huh? It’s an S1 for a SPAC. Practically the whole S1 is immaterial. It was a disclosures page. Stop making something about nothing.

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How do you miss the main point? The SPAC materials are immaterial until an acquisition is made. Plenty of things to not like about Altman but this is not one of them.

Re: Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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When you or I lie on a resume the background check knocks us out of the job. But when the CEO lies on a resume, nothing happens.

> when the CEO lies on a resume, nothing happens I think it’s abundantly clear that if OpenAI fails, powerful people will face prosecution. It’s an uncomfortable but unavoidable part of our justice system that we don’t like to prosecute people until they’re no longer winners.

I'm not familiar with the whole situation - what would they be prosecuted for? Violation of copyright? Or is this some sort of 'everything is securities fraud' situation?

Re: Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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post #51
post #2

Sam Altman is a pathological liar https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/ex_openai_board_membe... https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/

On Reddit he doesn't even bother lying, he just straight up admits being a conman. Yishan Wong describes the con: https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_bes... Altman admits it's true: https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_bes...

To my eyes, Altman appears to be joking.

Re: Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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You predicted it. Already on page 3. Algorithmic or not, we'll never know.

We answer questions about this kind of thing all the time (literally many times a day), both on the site and via email (hn@ycombinator.com). There's no question like this you can't find out the answer to. Whether you want the answer, or like the answer, or choose to believe the answer, are other questions.

The fact that there can be a thumb on the scale is (or should be) well known by now. Since the thumb is invisible, though, we can never truly know unless it's directly addressed, which was the case with this one. +1 to the other commenter's suggestion of visibly marking manual moderation activity (vs. algorithmic voodoo which is more understandably opaque). We've already got the [flagged] tag that transparently shows end-user moderation activity.

Re: Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you or I lie on a resume the background check knocks us out of the job. But when the CEO lies on a resume, nothing happens.

> when the CEO lies on a resume, nothing happens I think it’s abundantly clear that if OpenAI fails, powerful people will face prosecution. It’s an uncomfortable but unavoidable part of our justice system that we don’t like to prosecute people until they’re no longer winners.

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Re: Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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How do you miss the main point? The SPAC materials are immaterial until an acquisition is made. Plenty of things to not like about Altman but this is not one of them.

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Re: Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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post #51
post #2

Sam Altman is a pathological liar https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/29/ex_openai_board_membe... https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/

On Reddit he doesn't even bother lying, he just straight up admits being a conman. Yishan Wong describes the con: https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_bes... Altman admits it's true: https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the_bes...

Altman saving Reddit makes me like him more, not less. Imagine rooting for Condé Nast letting Reddit rot to death, Yahoo acquisition style.

Re: Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?

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When you or I lie on a resume the background check knocks us out of the job. But when the CEO lies on a resume, nothing happens.

> when the CEO lies on a resume, nothing happens I think it’s abundantly clear that if OpenAI fails, powerful people will face prosecution. It’s an uncomfortable but unavoidable part of our justice system that we don’t like to prosecute people until they’re no longer winners.

It's far from clear.

Dozens of finance executives wiped a decade worth of economic growth off the United States the year before I graduated high school. My generation will never recover. They left their jobs with more money that I'll make in an entire lifetime. None went to prison.

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