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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by comboy on Saturday May 18, 2024 @05:46AM (#40397667)
I'm surprised at such a mean comment and lots of follow-ups with agreement. I don't know Sam personally, I've only heard him here and there online from before OpenAI days and all I got was a good impression. He seems smart and pretty humble. Apart from all openai drama which I don't know enough to have an opinion, past-openai he also seems to be talking with sense.

Since so many people took time to put him down there here can anybody provide some explanation to me? Preferably not just about how closed openai is, but specifically about Sam. He is in a pretty powerful position and maybe I'm missing some info.

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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by FartyMcFarter on Saturday May 18, 2024 @06:09AM (#40397745)
People who have worked with him have publicly called him a manipulative liar:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1804u5y/former_open...

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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by tim333 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @06:16AM (#40397774)
There seems quite a lot of bitterness and jealousy on this forum. Any time someone builds a world leading company young there will be lots of comments about how they are a fraud, idiot, crook etc.
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by boppo1 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @07:18AM (#40398038)
Idk, everyone loves Carmack
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by w0m on Saturday May 18, 2024 @08:06AM (#40398301)
Carmack did his thing 40 years ago; before social media was as prevalent. I'm sure if the community was as large and talkative then as they were today; you'd find many detractors.
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by colibri727 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @08:10AM (#40398336)
What about Palmer Luckey ? I don't think he received a lot of criticism before he founded Anduril Industries.
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by w0m on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:27PM (#40431317)
I don't have a strong opine on him; quick wikipedia skim tells me certain crowds probably hate him as a military contractor. Some people hate anyone/thing associated with that space.
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by throwaway2037 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @09:31AM (#40398907)
True. And does anyone talk bad about the two Google founders? They are pretty much invisible multi-billionaires now. That is a major accomplishment!
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by jakupovic on Saturday May 18, 2024 @06:55AM (#40397920)
I shared stage with Sam at one point for an hour and was not impressed. Obviously I was wrong as Sam has accomplished so much in the meantime, but my initial impression wasn't much. How he did it is for him to know and for others to ...
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by mewpmewp2 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @07:23AM (#40398061)
What do you mean by not impressed?
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Re:OpenAI requires NDA for employees to keep equity by throwaway2037 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @09:32AM (#40398919)
Probably did not see him as a future billionaire.
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