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Greg Brockman interview [video]
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Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]
#32Not feeling like 1 hour of my Sunday is worth listening to this, do anyone have the non-clickbait answers to the two "previews" mentioned in the description? > Greg explains how the original Napa offsite produced the three-step technical plan OpenAI has followed for a decade and the real reason OpenAI had to abandon its pure nonprofit structure What was the technical plan and what was the "real reason" they couldn't…
> What was the technical plan "1. Solve reinforcement learning 2. Solve unsupervised learning 3. Gradually learn more complicated 'things'" That three point list is verbatim the extent of the technical plan mentioned. > what was the "real reason" they couldn't achieve their original goals? Paraphrasing, "we needed more money for compute and didn't think we could get enough as a non-profit". Brockman's diary might be…
the real real reason being gdb wanting to be a billionaire ;)
Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]
#33As far as Brockman account of the past goes, there's also his personal diary which was made public as a part of that lawsuit by Musk. Includes for example the line: "Financially what will take me to $1B?". BTW, if you don't know, Musk lost it because he filed too late, lol.
If his entire personal diary got exposed and that's the worst that's in it, good for him.
Worse? There is nothing wrong with wanting 1B. Anybody who said they wouldn't want it is lying.
Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]
#34I remember when computer magazines were aimed at programmers and had code listings in them.
Then there seemed to come a time when all they talked about was the IBM vs. Microsoft lawsuit. From then on they must have felt that they had discovered a formula, because all they ever yapped about after was insider baseball of computer companies.
I find this sort of corp. vs. corp. coverage boring, sort of like techie reality TV. Who will be voted out tonight, Debra, or Deborah...?
Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]
#35not sure why but this episode feels v boring
perhaps because he didn't share anything unexpected / unknown
Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
If his entire personal diary got exposed and that's the worst that's in it, good for him.
I'm curious what you're writing in your diary that's worse than blatantly admitting to fraud of this scale. He publicly misled people about OpenAI's "mission" as a nonprofit, while seeking to enrich himself to the tune of $1 billion(!!!) dollars. Also, his entire diary was not in fact made public. The attorneys only quoted the parts that were relevant to the case, which pertained to OpenAI's transition from non-profi…
How about wiping out an entire civilization? Not even necessary to hide this thought in your diary if you have enough power. I've seen today - in fact any day of this year - much worse things than his diary thoughts.
Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
If his entire personal diary got exposed and that's the worst that's in it, good for him.
Worse? There is nothing wrong with wanting 1B. Anybody who said they wouldn't want it is lying.
Nonsense. What the hell would you do with 1B? Give it to charities maybe. Maybe set up an investment where dividends are paid to charity. Running out of ideas
Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Not feeling like 1 hour of my Sunday is worth listening to this, do anyone have the non-clickbait answers to the two "previews" mentioned in the description? I know HN is built around mostly not reading the articles linked but how about you click on the link and surprise, there is already exactly another link providing what you're asking for.
You mean the transcript that is behind a account/paywall? Or is there some other link I'm missing?
Yes, you're missing the link at the end of the article for free.
Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. Solve reinforcement learning. 2. solve unsupervised learning. 3. gradually tackle more complicated things. > what was the "real reason" they couldn't achieve their original goals? I assume this is referring to why they gave up being a non-profit. The answer is that they needed more money.
Huh, I guess ML people weren't aware of "divide and conquer" that has been successfully employed in software engineering since basically forever? > I assume this is referring to why they gave up being a non-profit. The answer is that they needed more money. Ugh, that was more boring than even I expected, thanks a lot for saving me the time though, seems avoiding watching the full thing was worth it.
Not that they wanted more money personally, but that they needed more money for compute.
Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
If his entire personal diary got exposed and that's the worst that's in it, good for him.
Worse? There is nothing wrong with wanting 1B. Anybody who said they wouldn't want it is lying.
I wouldn’t want. I have enough. Not everyone is wanting money.
But it is not the point. The point is, when you take high moral ground and talk about bug problems to help humanity, and then your own diary exposes you as avaricious simpleton, the whole high moral ground crumbles. And you expose yourself as another grifter.
That’s what happened to Brockman. Although smart people could see these qualities in altman, brockman etcetera way before that happened