I mean, there seem to be this cult following around Sam Altman on HN and Twitter. But do the common user care like at all?
What sane user would want a shitcoin CEO in charge of a product they depend on?
Elon split was the warning
Interesting. Got any source? Or was it in a private conversation.
I have nothing against him, it just seemed a bit off that most of the meeting was about this brand new coin, how it will be successful, and about the plans to scan biometric data of the entire world population. I mean, you don't have to be a genius to understand a few dozen ways these things can go wrong.
The fact that he got tapped to run YC, and then OpenAI, does make you think he must be pretty great. But there's a conspicuous absence of any visible evidence that he is. So what's going on? Amazing work, but in private? Easy-to-manipulate frontman? Signed a contract at a crossroads on a full moon night?
http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html
Note the date on that.
The new CEO of OpenAI said he’d rather Nazi’s take over the world forever than risk AI alignment failure, and said he couldn’t understand how anyone could think otherwise[1]. I don’t think people appreciate how far some of these people have gone off the deep end.
That's pretty much in line with Sam's public statements on AI risk (Sam, taking those statements as honest which may not be warranted, apparently also thinks the benefits of aligned AI are good enough to drive ahead anyway, and that wide commercial access with the limited guardrails OpenAI has provided users and even moreso Microsoft is somehow beneficial to that goal or at least low enough risk of producing the bad outcome, to be warranted, but that doesn't change that he is publicly on record as a strong believer in misaligned AI risks.)
The OpenAI folks seem to be hallucinating to rationalize why the "Open" is rather closed.
Organizations can't pretend to believe nonsense. They will end up believing it.
Is there any doubt that the board’s handling of this was anything other than dazzling ineptitude?
Stability AI is looking better after this shitshow.
