Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

Post by dug4wt » Fri, May 15, 2026, 8:38 AM UTC

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His own sister accused him of sexual assault. He was fired from his first startup. He was abruptly fired from ycombinator in shady circumstances. He was accused by the OpenAI board of lying to them, ousted, and somehow managed to regain control. He took OpenAI from being a non-profit to a for-profit, with obvious benefits to whoever controls it. He was massively misleading about the capabilities of his product and pr…

Paul Graham, founder of the website we're on, still says he likes and trusts him. He just was annoyed he was constantly distracted by AI stuff when he was supposed to be running YC as president (which bears no resemblance to any current events...). He, at worst, finds him to have been (at some point) incompetent, which is very different from finding him immoral. Paul keeps replying to tweets to clarify this when peop…

Post by Henchman21 » Fri, May 15, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

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Not only do lies work , there is also no punishment at all for it .

quite the opposite

Post by platevoltage » Fri, May 15, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC

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Yup. that's why we need new Democrats.

I agree. But Republicans found a new Republican who spoke to their longstanding frustrations and look what it's gotten us. Just sayin'.

Post by Henchman21 » Sat, May 16, 2026, 12:36 AM UTC

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I await my education on why lies don't work and how people are routinely punished for it?

Please excuse me, I was implying they get the opposite of punishment, they get rewarded for their lies.

Post by cindyllm » Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

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Psychopaths wear a mask of sanity but underneath they have no moral framework. Some people can hate black people or Muslims or anything like that but these qualities are very human. Things like racism has existed across cultures for more than several millennia among many people. A psychopath is a different ballgame. A psychopath can plunge a knife into a babies face and feel no emotion. The only reason why the psycho…

You’re trying to tell me, in an infinitely smug, condescending, and unnecessarily long-winded manner that you know as a clinical fact that Sam Altman is a psycopath?