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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by seanhunter on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:02AM (#38359517)
What’s interesting to me is that someone looked at Quora and thought “I want the guy behind that on my board”.
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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by bambax on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:22AM (#38360071)
Agreed! Yet in 2014 Sam Altman accepted Quora into one of YC's batches, saying [0]

> Adam D’Angelo is awesome, and we’re big Quora fans

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch

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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by djsavvy on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:31AM (#38360501)
To be fair, back then it was pretty awesome IMO. I spent a lot of hours scrolling Quora in those days. It wasn’t until at least 2016 that the user experience became unpalatable if memory serves correctly.
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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by singularity2001 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @01:26AM (#38360094)
it's probably more like they thought "I want Quoras money" and D'angelo wanted their control
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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by motoxpro on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:01AM (#38360322)
I was thinking the same thing. This whole thing is surprising and then I look at Quora and think "Eh, makes sense that the CEO is completely incompetent and money hungry"

Even as I type that, when people talk about the board being altruistic and holding to the Open AI charter, how in the world can you be that user hostile, profit focused, and incompetent at your day job (Quora CEO) and then say "Oh no, but on this board I am an absolute saint and will do everything to benefit humanity"

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