OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

Post by IncreasePosts » Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 1:33 AM UTC

DevX101 wrote: post #68

BillFranklin wrote: post #60

There are some pretty callous comments on this thread. This is really sad. Suchir was just 26, and graduated from Berkeley 3 years ago. Here’s his personal site: https://suchir.net/ . I think he was pretty brave for standing up against what is generally perceived as an injustice being done by one of the biggest companies in the world, just a few years out of college. I’m not sure how many people in his position would…

If I'm a whistleblower in an active case and I end up dead before testifying, I absolutely DO want the general public to speculate about my cause of death.

Post by FireBeyond » Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 1:41 AM UTC

ninetyninenine wrote: post #56

lolinder wrote: post #18

Normally the word "whistleblower" means someone who revealed previously-unknown facts about an organization. In this case he's a former employee who had an interview where he criticized OpenAI, but the facts that he was in possession of were not only widely known at the time but were the subject of an ongoing lawsuit that had launched months prior. As much as I want to give this a charitable reading, the only explana…

No. Anytime someone potentially possesses information that is damning to a company and that person is killed… the low probability of such an even being a random coincidence is quite low. It is so low such that it is extremely reasonable to consider the potential for an actual assassination while not precluding that a coincidence is a possibility.

Post by blast » Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 1:47 AM UTC

Terr_ wrote: post #106

anon373839 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Normally the word "whistleblower" means someone who revealed previously-unknown facts Not to be pedantic, but this is actually incorrect, both under federal and California law. Case law is actually very explicit on the point that the information does NOT need to be previously unknown to qualify for whistleblower protection. However, disclosing information to the media is not typically protected.

I think their post boils down to: "This title implies someone would have a strong reason to murder them, but that isn't true." We can evaluate that argument without caring too much about whether the writer intended it, or whether some other circumstances might have forced their word-choice.

Post by dash2 » Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 1:56 AM UTC

Post by morgannewman » Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 2:00 AM UTC

dgfitz wrote: post #69

nialv7 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> this guy apparently killed himself. where did you get that? this article doesn't say a cause of death.

> The medical examiner’s office has not released his cause of death, but police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”