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OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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> Good lord, what an atrocious Gish gallop of selective quotes and evidence. This might be one of the worst displays of sharpshooter logic I've ever seen. Ease up on the throttle there, LessWrong. You've blown the transaxle.

Oh... Holy shit... Just saw your post history. As far as HN users go, you're the genuine article in propagandists. If you're ever up for an interview in your sources, I'll entertain it.

What cause am I propagandizing? Just curious.

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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post #387

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I made something similar with https://github.com/0x41head/posthumous-automation It's completely open-source and you can self host it.

All that stuff looks fun, but I'm utterly terrified at the idea of it malfunctioning. Like, in a false-positive way. And, as a professional deformation, I guess, it is basically an axiom for me that any automation will malfunction at some point for some ridiculously stupid and obvious-in-the-hindsight reason I absolutely cannot predict right now. I mean, seriously, it isn't a laughable idea that a bomb that will expl…

I totally see where you're coming from, and I agree—this project definitely isn't fool-proof. But honestly, it feels like the best option for making sure you're really gone while keeping privacy in mind.

As technology advances, we will develop more effective means of determining whether someone is truly deceased, for e.g. something like Neuralink could provide significantly improved methods for verifying actual death.

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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post #288

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I think you're missing something really obvious here. Piracy is not expressive content. You call it a game, and therefore it must be - but it's not. It's simply an illegal good. It doesn't have to serve any purpose. It cannot be bound by copyright, due to the illegal nature. The Morris Worm wasn't copyrightable content. Something is not required to be expressive content, to be bound under law. That's not a requiremen…

> It's simply an illegal good. It doesn't have to serve any purpose. It cannot be bound by copyright, due to the illegal nature. The Morris Worm wasn't copyrightable content. Do you have a source that illegal works can’t be / aren’t copyrighted? https://yjolt.org/copyrighted-crimes-copyrightability-illega... Says for example: > As long as a work is original and fixed in a tangible medium of expression, it is entitled…

It isn't that an illegal good can't be copyrighted, exactly. It's that if it is illegal, to own the copyright, you have to assert your ownership. In most cases, the consequences of which may involve the state seizing said property from you - to prevent you profiting from the crimes involved.

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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If death is a suicide it doesn't automatically means that third parties weren't involved. It's possible to push (temporally) vulnerable people over the edge, even if when helped/left alone they wouldn't.

Especially if one party have incentive to discredit/destroy such person, so court/jury won't take their testimony seriously(or there will be no testimony at all). After all it's almost impossible to connect such actions with subsequent suicide.

While suicide is by definition action of individual, what leads to it isn't always the same.

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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post #357

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I see. I guess I think of it as something that triggers automatically if you don’t reset it every day and doesn’t rely on another person. For example, a script that publishes the information if you don’t input the password every day.

And then it's published if you experience a temporary power outage. If it's important that it's only released if you're actually dead, putting it in the hands of a person is your only real option.

How could it be published without power.

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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And then it's published if you experience a temporary power outage. If it's important that it's only released if you're actually dead, putting it in the hands of a person is your only real option.

How could it be published without power.

The switch runs on a secret VPS. Otherwise they can just unplug your Internet connection and be safe.

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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Police now say it's been ruled a suicide: https://sfstandard.com/2024/12/13/key-openai-whistleblower-d... https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/12/13/openai-... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/openai-whistleblower-dead_n_6...

The US is turning into Russia where anyone about to testify magically falls out a window

Re: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

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post #68

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If I'm a whistleblower in an active case and I end up dead before testifying, I absolutely DO want the general public to speculate about my cause of death.

This conspiracy shit is tiring. Is this Truth Social or HN?

There is legitimate skepticism here when so much is at stake.
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