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

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

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Post by waffletower »

tuwtuwtuwtuw wrote: post #80
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #78

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That's a JSON file right?

I received JSON too. This worked for me on a Mac: curl https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA22Xx2j... | jq ".body" > /tmp/body.html && open /tmp/body.html

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

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Post by CamperBob2 »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #45
skeeter2020 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you're arguing the degree to which such powerful people fit the definition of psychopath, you're at extremes. You've just been in the warming pot too long to see it.

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At least one clinical psychologist might disagree with you there: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/opinions/mary-trump-book-dang...

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

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Post by CamperBob2 »

bluecheese452 wrote: post #59

Ah a shakedown. He will make the required donation and this will go away.

Brockman already did, to the tune of $25 million: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump...

Trouble is, Elon Musk indirectly gave him even more.

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

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Post by aerhardt »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #30
avaer wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personal vendettas between the world's most powerful psychopaths playing out in the stock market while everyone else suffers does seem like the current meta. So it makes sense.

God why do people frame things in such extremes? Neither person is a psychopath. If anyone is closer to a psychopath it’s Altman, but he doesn’t completely fit the monicker.

For all his weirdness and moral failings, I don’t see Altman saying things like whites being under apartheid in the US. And worse. Multiple times a day. Every day.

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

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Post by danaw »

tremon wrote: post #48
threethirtytwo wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God why do people frame things in such extremes? Neither person is a psychopath. If anyone is closer to a psychopath it’s Altman, but he doesn’t completely fit the monicker.

Haven't you heard? Psychopath, like Pedophile, is a mere epithet these days, to indicate a person's favoured status with the in-crowd. In contrast to the equally meaningless epithet "woke".

who's calling people pedos that don't at least have credible allegations against them of that crime (eg trump)?

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

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

dbreunig wrote: post #76
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> have to imagine he's behind this Is Musk probably throwing fuel on the fire? Yes, probably. (Though we have no proof of this.) Is Musk causing this? No. This is mainly Altman’s doing. The hyperbole. The lying. The leverage. The pomp. Even Zuckerberg and Bezos haven’t painted a target on themselves like he has. (To the point that I’m borderline sympathetic.)

Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge makes a strong case we _do_ have proof that Musk is actively gathering and throwing fuel on the fire: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/929129/s... > But the thing is, Molo doesn’t actually have to be good at this job, because the point of this trial isn’t to win — though I’m sure Musk wouldn’t mind a win. The point is to punish Altman, Brockman, and OpenAI. Musk has d…

Oh sure, the trial is maybe 5% a Hail Mary and 95% about distracting and disrupting OpenAI. I read "behind this" to mean more-clandestine moves, e.g. planting stories, conducting and leaking oppo, amplifying negative media on X, et cetera.

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

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Post by danaw »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #30
avaer wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personal vendettas between the world's most powerful psychopaths playing out in the stock market while everyone else suffers does seem like the current meta. So it makes sense.

God why do people frame things in such extremes? Neither person is a psychopath. If anyone is closer to a psychopath it’s Altman, but he doesn’t completely fit the monicker.

would you prefer sociopath? they're willing to lie to accumulate massive wealth irrespective of the harm.

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

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Post by danaw »

an0malous wrote: post #74
tlogan wrote: post #73

I am sure that nothing illegal was done here. But the fact that OpenAI was a nonprofit and then suddenly became a for-profit is definitely something that does not feel right. I am 100% sure that it is all legal and such, but we have this mental model that “nonprofits are the good guys, run by people who just want to help humanity and nothing else.” But that is not true, and probably never was.

The whole idea of a non profit never made any sense, it’s conflating the idea of profitability with altruism. These are completely independent things.

they're not independent; a 501c3 is both a nonprofit and is meant to serve a public good (altruism).
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