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Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

ikea is a non-profit?!?

Ikea has the wildest legal structure, but yes, a lot of IKEA is technically owned by a couple of "nonprofits" which happen to pay out a lot of money to the Kamprad family.

The same way that Rolex is technically a non-profit. Complete bullshit legal wrangling.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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I found the lack of information of the CTO and certain board members disturbing. Like, who is Mira Murati? We only now that she came from Albania (one of the poorest countries) and somehow got into some pretty good private schools, and then to pretty good companies. Who are her parents? What kind of connections does she pull?

Who cares where she came from? Do you think that a poor country cannot produce really smart people? Making assumptions that her family has some connections and that's why she is successful is pretty stupid.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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post #221

Edit: I called it https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725682088639119857 nothing to do with dishonesty. That’s just the official reason. ———- I haven’t heard anyone commenting about this, but the two main figures here-consider: This MUST come down to a disagreement between Altman and Sutskever. Also interesting that Sutskever tweeted a month and a half ago https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1707752576077176907 Th…

Doesn't justify the hostile language and the urgent last minute timing. (partners were notified just minutes before press release). They didn't wait even 30 min for the market to close causing MSFT to drop billions in that time. A mere direction disagrement would have been handled with "Sam is retiring after 3 months to spend more time with his Family, We thank him for all his work". And surely would be taken months…

Great point. It was rude to drop a bombshell during trading hours. That said, the chunk of value Microsoft dropped today may be made back tomorrow, but maybe not: if OpenAI is going to slow down and concentrate on safe/aligned AI then that is not quite as good for Microsoft.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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post #205

Quitting like that makes it seem like Greg already knew what was brewing, whatever the conflict was and it came to a head and he made his call. So not a total surprise to him, at least as far as the backstory goes.

On the contrary this makes it seem like he was surprised.

I agree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38313501

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary this makes it seem like he was surprised.

No, he does not seem surprised as he had his mind made up about an important life decision and a carefully crafted resignation letter ready in a matter of hours.

> carefully crafted resignation letter

Are you trolling, the letter is short and all lowercase lol

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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post #19

Hope they fire the person that forced verified phone numbers on new accounts.

Verifying phone number is one of the last things which is still effective when fighting against bot registrations. Alternative is to ask money for registration. Here is idea for hacker news crowd: make service which is a proxy for phone number validation: user needs to validate his phone number once in that app and any other 3rd-party service can ask this app for security code which confirms phone number ownership. W…

Nice idea, I hope somebody builds it. Signal just showed that they're spending $6 mil/year for verifying phone numbers.
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