Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

Post by a456463 » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 10:12 PM UTC

laylower wrote: post #627

Reading this makes me even happier to pay for Anthropic. Amodei and his sister saw through the behavior and called it out. " “Eighty per cent of the charter was just betrayed,” Amodei recalled. He confronted Altman, who denied that the provision existed. Amodei read it aloud, pointing to the text, and ultimately forced another colleague to confirm its existence to Altman directly. (Altman doesn’t remember this.) Amod…

Post by a456463 » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC

arionhardison wrote: post #112

Hi @ronanfarrow — I have only had one interaction with Sam Altman in person, and I was advised to keep it to myself. I know this crowd may not care, but Altman is absolutely terrified of Black people — not in any contextual sense, but in a visceral, instinctive way. For someone who, as you put it, "controls our future," this should matter. FYI: I am by far not the only one to have experienced this and it 100% impacts…

Post by staticman2 » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #864

staticman2 wrote: post #657

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't expect an AI to know exactly what happens in every chapter of a book. Knowing the plot of Neuromancer isn't the same as being able to recite a chapter by chapter summary. I tried this Neuromancer query a few times and results greatly vary with each regeneration but "do not include spoilers" seems to make Gemuni give more spoilers, not less.

>>I wouldn't expect an AI to know exactly what happens in every chapter of a book. Cool. I did - and turns out it can do it, just not without giving me some spoilers first. >>vary with each regeneration but "do not include spoilers" seems to make Gemuni give more spoilers, not less. I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this then.

Post by scyzoryk_xyz » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 11:05 PM UTC

ronanfarrow wrote: post #59

kmfrk wrote: post #48

Gobsmacking details about Altmans' time as Y Combinator president, in case anyone's wondering. Fantastic reporting.

As is always the case with incredibly precise and rigorously fact-checked reporting like this, where every word is chosen carefully (the initial closing meeting for this one was nearly eight hours long, with full deliberation about each sentence), there is more out there on that subject than is explicitly on the page.

Post by pjeide » Thu, Apr 09, 2026, 12:41 AM UTC

stonyrubbish wrote: post #288

shruggedatlas wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your brain is performing "compute-intensive brute-force attacks on the problem/solution space" as you read this very sentence. You trained patterns on English syntax, structure, and semantics since you were a child and it is supporting you now with inference (or interpretation). And, for compute efficiency, you probably have evolution to thank.

Human cognition is nothing like AI "cognition." It really bothers me that people think AI is doing the same thing the human mind does. AI is more like a parrot which is trained to give a correct-looking response to any question. The parrot doesn't think, doesn't know what its doing etc, it just does it because it gets a treat every time a "good" answer is prompted. This is why it can't do things like know how many pa…

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