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0 pointsthereitgoes4565mo ago0 comments

The reportings at the time said that he was Mark’s 5th choice or similar. It is fairly clear he would prefer Ilya, Murati, Mark Chen, and perhaps others, but they said no, and Alex Wang was the first one to say yes.

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tsunamifury5mo ago

Why in the world would he want Murati? She has absolutely no technical chops and was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.

hn_throwaway_995mo ago

> was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.

Why do you say that?

tsunamifury5mo ago

Her history was entirely non technical up until openAI.

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shuckles5mo ago

Because she was CTO of OpenAI.

CuriouslyC5mo ago

Pretty ironic when access to trade secrets and people skills is seen as more important in a technical field than technical competence.

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bobxmax5mo ago

What technical chops does Sam Altman have?

seanmcau5mo ago

He started coding at age 8

arthurcolle5mo ago

The self-supervised mesa-optimizer strikes again

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tsunamifury5mo ago

Why in the world would he want Murati? She has absolutely no technical chops and was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.

hn_throwaway_995mo ago

> was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.

Why do you say that?

tsunamifury5mo ago

Her history was entirely non technical up until openAI.

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shuckles5mo ago

Because she was CTO of OpenAI.

CuriouslyC5mo ago

Pretty ironic when access to trade secrets and people skills is seen as more important in a technical field than technical competence.

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bobxmax5mo ago

What technical chops does Sam Altman have?

seanmcau5mo ago

He started coding at age 8

arthurcolle5mo ago

The self-supervised mesa-optimizer strikes again

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse