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Re:Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's o... by jonathankoren on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:47PM (#38574957)
Truly, a man that died penniless while spouting rather fanciful and discredited claims of superweapons (earthquake machines, intercontinental death rays, for two) is clearly the man to emulate.
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Re:Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's o... by krapp on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:54PM (#38577081)
Yes. Who would want to be the genius who discovered a revolutionary paradigm in energy transmission and created numerous world-changing inventions when you could be the rich asshole who ripped him off?

And also who claimed to have invented a telephone that talked to the dead[0], btw.

[0]https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas...

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Re:Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's o... by bugglebeetle on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:51PM (#38575034)
Truly, the psychopath torturing animals with live current in public is the man to emulate!
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Re:Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's o... by ChickeNES on Saturday December 09, 2023 @12:42AM (#38578976)
Never happened, that's an urban legend
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Re:Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's o... by bugglebeetle on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:35AM (#38579250)
>Eventually, Edison’s team would kill 44 dogs, six calves, and two horses in their quest to discredit alternating current.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/the-cruel-animal...

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Re:Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's o... by ChickeNES on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:22AM (#38579496)
Okay, I might have to mea culpa here, as I thought it was a reference to the infamous Topsy the elephant, which Edison was not involved with.
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