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Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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Post by Atotalnoob »

93po wrote: post #115
tarruda wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would not trust someone who claims they are working on a project that benefits people. I would be less suspicious of someone working on a selfish project that might benefit people as a side effect.

Sam Altman's work on OpenAI is hard to characterize as selfish when he owns none of it and doesn't get paid for it.

He is the CEO, and according to levels.fyi, they give out stock grants.

Why on earth would the CEO not get a stock grant when the entry level SWEs do?

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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Post by koonsolo »

ShamelessC wrote: post #137
93po wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not about me protecting some billionaire that doesn't give a shit about me. It's about protecting reasonable discussion and trying to keep discussion in reality instead of it just being an echo chamber of "ai man bad". If I just wanted to see outrage and shitting on someone without substance I'd go read reddit and twitter. Plenty of evidence... of which still none is being presented neutrally.

There is a bunch of evidence in the article we're commenting on. Good faith assumption that people have all read the article before commenting is (supposedly) a premise of HN's culture. In practice, many people who comment are responding solely to a comment or to the title presented.

I read the article, didn't see any evidence of the above claims.

Still waiting for such evidence...

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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Post by ascorbic »

Atotalnoob wrote: post #141
93po wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sam Altman's work on OpenAI is hard to characterize as selfish when he owns none of it and doesn't get paid for it.

He is the CEO, and according to levels.fyi, they give out stock grants. Why on earth would the CEO not get a stock grant when the entry level SWEs do?

He's said that he doesn't take any stock. I don't know why so many people thing this is strange. He's already immensely rich. While this role might not make him richer, but it does give him huge amounts of power and influence.

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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Post by optimalsolver »

latchkey wrote: post #138
optimalsolver wrote: post #135

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Guy goes into interview with an early fly-by-night Sam Altman operation. Finds it dysfunctional as expected. Reports it back to us as Sam Altman launches another fly-by-night operation. Sorry, but it's a Sam Altman story.

"fly-by-night" and "as expected" are your own added bias. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It is a story about a pre-interview, not a story about Sam.

It's a story about Sam.

And no, not by own bias, just an accurate reading of OP's story about his operation.

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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Post by optimalsolver »

somsak2 wrote: post #134
optimalsolver wrote: post #125

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If someone had an anecdote about, say, interviewing at one of Elon Musk's earliest ventures, that's an Elon Musk story, especially if it tells you how the company is run.

No, that's now how most will people interpret that statement.

I'm guessing you didn't canvas a vote on that, so I'm assuming your source might have been certain posterior regions?

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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Post by latchkey »

optimalsolver wrote: post #145
latchkey wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"fly-by-night" and "as expected" are your own added bias. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It is a story about a pre-interview, not a story about Sam.

It's a story about Sam. And no, not by own bias, just an accurate reading of OP's story about his operation.

Sure. Whatever.

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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Post by [deleted] »

HWR_14 wrote: post #139
93po wrote: post #114

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The premise is that you can make spam filtering and bot filtering and circles of trust work if you have a finite amount of accounts. Currently on the internet there are infinite accounts. If there's only a billion accounts, filtering becomes much easier.

And all the poor people who sold their accounts when that seemed to have no cost for $50 (which is real money) are locked out of the internet forever

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