Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of OpenAI's reinstated CEO

Re:Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of Op... by tristor on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:13AM (#38380315)

If you’re referring to discussing their qualifications to be on the board, I don’t think that is in any way driven by sexism. There were numerous comment threads discussing the qualifications of all the board members and these two stood out as being specifically unqualified, and D’Angelo stood out for having clear conflicts of interest.

Given how the board handled this whole situation like an amateur hour shit show, you will be hard pressed to argue their competence and qualifications in their favor.

Rather, you are doing exactly what you are claiming from others, you’re seeing two unqualified board members, who happen to be women, and defending them because they’re women even though this whole situation displayed the incompetence of the entire board, Helen and Tasha included. The only one taking a sexist position is you.

If the board handled this situation like competent adults who had ever spoken to an attorney, we wouldn’t all be having this conversation in the first place.

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Re:Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of Op... by abadpoli on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:40AM (#38380693)

> defending them because they’re women

There’s absolutely nothing in my comment that even implies I’m defending them and their actions, and also absolutely nothing in my comment that implies any of my statement is based on their gender.

I seem to have struck a nerve with you, though. I think the commenter doth protest too much.

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Re:Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of Op... by stevedewald on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:58AM (#38381751)

You introduced sex into a discussion where their sex is completely irrelevant.

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Re:Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of Op... by tristor on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:45AM (#38380769)

I suggest you reread your comment then. You claimed the only reason people questioned their qualifications was sexism.

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Re:Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of Op... by Philpax on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:56AM (#38380906)

They never said the word "only" or implied it.

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Re:Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of Op... by tristor on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:19AM (#38381227)

They did not explicitly say it, it was definitely implied, since their entire comment was to claim that is was misogyny and sexism that were the motivations for commenters questioning these board members qualifications. I invite folks to actually look into qualifications of all of the board members, unless it's changed they're on the OpenAI website.

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Re:Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of Op... by Philpax on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:21AM (#38381258)

> I think part of this

> There has been a lot of thinly veiled sexism

No, they didn't imply it, and they didn't claim it was the primary motivation. They just said it was a contributor. You are perceiving a stronger claim than they made.

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Re:Sam Altman's been fired before. The polarizing past of Op... by tristor on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @11:24AM (#38381307)

It's literally the only claim they made. There were no alternatives, so of course it's perceived and implied to be the strongest claim.

They said what they said, trying to weasel out of it doesn't make the case.

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