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Re:OpenAI's Murati Aims to Re-Hire Altman, Brockman After Exits by 0xDEAFBEAD on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:58PM (#38342452)
It seems like a mess -- but what would you do if you were on the board of a nonprofit that believes it's developing the world's most important technology, and you conclude that the CEO is lying to you and/or violating the charter? I don't know if there are any good options.

Paul Graham says Sam is "extremely good at becoming powerful", "you could parachute him into an island of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king". I don't understand why I'm supposed to support a machiavellian power-seeker to develop the world's most important technology. I just hope he doesn't slip ice-nine into my food after I publish this comment: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

Edit: I suspect the mods of Hacker News downranked this comment, it's voted to +15 points but sits near the bottom of the page... Maybe try not to be quite so cartoonishly evil guys?

Re:OpenAI's Murati Aims to Re-Hire Altman, Brockman After Exits by consumer451 on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:13AM (#38342570)
hmm, interesting, I couldn't find that "parachute him..." part of the quote in any archived version of the article.

Oh, I see, it was here: http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html

Re:OpenAI's Murati Aims to Re-Hire Altman, Brockman After Exits by 0xDEAFBEAD on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:17AM (#38342619)
Re:OpenAI's Murati Aims to Re-Hire Altman, Brockman After Exits by John7149 on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:13AM (#38342571)
Altman being selfish will benefit mankind. He is trying to build alternative GPU to rival NVIDIA. I ratger back him then Jensen. Look at Mother Teresa. India is still dirt poor. Meanwhile heartless Stalin and Mao created superpowers. Do you think Musk and Gates or even Zuck are great and honest? They each build heir empires way more ruthless than Altman. They still benefitted mankind greatly. Or how about that Steve, one of the greatest infamous @ssh0le in Silicon valley. I take Altman over Obama ANYTIME in instance heartbeat.