Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands • Hacker News Board

Re: Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands

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Post by whattheheckheck » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 4:19 AM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #8

still-learning wrote: post #6

Lots of bad blood and betrayal between them.

Isn’t the origin story of Anthropic basically a bunch of disillusioned OpenAI employees fucking off and starting over? Like Runic Games when Blizzard first started turning into assholes.

"You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in five years and he'd be the king" was originally written by Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, in a 2008 blog post on startup fundraising

Too bad we're stuck on the global island

Re: Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands

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Post by thomassmith65 » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 5:55 AM UTC

Mike Judge: So finally they both hold their fists up, with an inch of air between them, and we wrap the scene with the Indian Prime Minister solemnly saying "Thank you, tech leaders!" to polite applause.

Re: Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 9:03 AM UTC

gbnwl wrote: post #12

kunley wrote: post #2

I for one refuse to be thrilled by the shallow affairs of ephemeral celebs

What makes you think their fame will be ephemeral? All of the tech billionaires from the 90s, 00s, and 10s are still constantly in the news for better or worse.

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Re: Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands

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Post by awesomeMilou » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 10:49 AM UTC

whattheheckheck wrote: post #21

hinkley wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t the origin story of Anthropic basically a bunch of disillusioned OpenAI employees fucking off and starting over? Like Runic Games when Blizzard first started turning into assholes.

"You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in five years and he'd be the king" was originally written by Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, in a 2008 blog post on startup fundraising Too bad we're stuck on the global island

Isn't that exactly the kind of personality that PG attempts to attract with his exponential growth monopoly BS?

Re: Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands

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Post by jobs_throwaway » Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

kunley wrote: post #20

jobs_throwaway wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think these guys are only ephemeral celebs, I think you're going to have a bad time the next 10 years

que?

Si crees que estos tipos son solo celebridades efímeras, creo que lo vas a pasar mal en los próximos 10 años.

Re: Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands

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Post by KellyCriterion » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 7:33 AM UTC

Full video of the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53oJHmVzshk

interesting: Looks like Amodei is the one hesitating?

Re: Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) Refuse to Hold Hands

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Post by kunley » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC

jobs_throwaway wrote: post #25

kunley wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

que?

Si crees que estos tipos son solo celebridades efímeras, creo que lo vas a pasar mal en los próximos 10 años.

Does not compute.

You seem to think I will be unhappy because I don't have unhealthy obsession about tech celebs - and yes they are ephemeral, because in said 10 years these personas will be substituted in terms of celebrities by other personas, all of them with pretty much zero impact on my real life.

So, the reality is precisely the opposite: I will be more happy by not having described obsession, thus, I don't see how I should have hard time. The repetition of your false claims in more languages doesn't make them more true.