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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by mistercow on Saturday April 01, 2017 @04:29AM (#14011173)
It is pretty unbelievable, since it's not true. The actual quote:

>OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and Paul Christiano are both technical advisors to Open Philanthropy and live in the same house as Holden. In addition, Holden is engaged to Dario’s sister Daniela.

His roommates/sister's fiancé work there. That's all.

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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by idlewords on Saturday April 01, 2017 @04:49AM (#14011245)
Holden is engaged to the sister of the guy he is funding. Hence, "future brother-in-law".
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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by jaibot on Saturday April 01, 2017 @07:02AM (#14011541)
"Running an organization" is not the same thing as "owning an organization". Maybe at a company the CEO might have shares, but there's no equivalent at a non-profit. It's just a job that pays below market rates. If money was the goal, there's a plethora of readily-available much-higher-value opportunities that won't get sneering Internet comments.
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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by mistercow on Saturday April 01, 2017 @04:36PM (#14014041)
That's not a response to my comment.
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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by idlewords on Saturday April 01, 2017 @05:03PM (#14014159)
You said "sister's fiancé", which is backwards.
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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by mistercow on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:23AM (#14029705)
Fair enough, but it doesn't make much difference.
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