skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She thinks Sam and Jack have been "Shadowbanning [her] across all platforms except onlyfans and pornhub. Also had 6 months of hacking into almost all my accounts and wifi when I first started the podcast"

https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/170997828542437802...
You can add suppressing on hn to the list:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785072
Downplaying is one thing, but attributing a policy decision to a fabricated technical error would be outright lying to the public. In a large company like Microsoft, with numerous potential sources of information leaks, this approach is likely unfeasible.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not. Lots of indicators of humor in there but just in case... Please don't do this. Please stop the trend of making computers as inefficient as possible for end-users.

Since when does the End key have anything to do with up/down scrolling anyways? It's always been for moving to the end of a line of text (i.e. left/right).

I propose instead using CTRL+PgDn. You know, so it actually makes sense.
In California’s mountains (Sierra Nevada range and similar) people who want to burn wood legally have to use pellets. The stoves that burn them are meant to comply with pollution regulations. People kinda don’t like them but they use them.

Montevideo didn’t seem like a place where suburbanites were burning wood of any form, but I was there in the summer, just for a day.
Can’t they fix the 0-day no-open message exploits first?
It's in his interest to make everything seem not just fine, but part of the plan.
It seems unlikely that Altman arranged for her to be "shadowbanned" from every social media site except for OnlyFans and Pornhub(!), or that he has been engaged in hacking her WiFi.

If you actually look at the totality of her claims, there are probably more reasons to be skeptical than to accept her words unconditionally. About the only thing you can say for sure is that something really unfortunate is either happening to her now, or has happened in her past, for which she is unlikely to bear all the responsibility.
What did Sam Altman hide from his board that caused his firing as CEO of OpenAI?

1) That LLMs cannot generalize outside of _patterns_ they pick up during training? (as shown by a recent paper from Google, and as many of us know from our work testing LLMs and working around their short comings)

2) That every time you train a new model, with potentially very high expense, you have no idea what you're going to get. Generally better but also potentially bigger reliability challenges. LLMs are fundamentally unreliable and not stable in any kind of use case besides chat apps, especially when they keep tweaking and updating the model and deprecating old ones. No one can build on shifting sands.

3) The GPT4-Turbo regressed on code generation performance and the 128K window is only usable up to 16K (but for me in use cases more compicated than Q&A over docs, I found that 1.2K is max usable window. That's 100X than he advertised.

4) That he priced GPT4-V at a massive loss to crush the competition

5) That he rushed the GPT Builder product, causing massive drain on resources dedicated to existing customers, and having to halt sign ups, even with a $29B investment riding on the grwoth of the user base. Any one of the above or none of the above.

No one knows... but the board.. .and Microsoft who has 49% control of the board.
Hasn't that been around for awhile?

In any case, I don't think not responding is an admission of guilt. Assume he was totally innocent. What good does him responding to it do? Would make hundreds of thousands of people aware of it, instead of just maybe a few dozen thousand. An accusation like that is hard to shake off even if you're totally innocent.

That said, I hope if it is true, there's some sense of justice.
I've done multiple 10+ hour roadtrips (multiple tanks of gas/multiple full battery charges) with my EV and I'm happy with it's performance. I'm not really sure what else one could ask.

As for depreciation, I'm not one who really buys new cars very often. The vehicle I replaced was was over a decade old and it's resale value isn't that much higher than it's scrap value.

And for people who _do_ go through vehicles more often than I do, I think it's a bit too early to tell. I'm personally skeptical that the lifetime fuel savings for most people won't cover the difference in depreciation. But I guess we'll see!
Advertisers Flee X as Outcry Grows Over Musk’s Endorsement of Antisemitic Post
Wasn't it his tweet (and not via company) that announced the pause on new pro membership yesterday??
Lesswrong is ground zero for AI doomers, so this is right in their wheelhouse.
So does every annoying choice. So, This is why I Linux. Since win2k every other MS OS has annoyed me.
She thought she could fix him.
Stefan esser was a bit infamous in the iOS jailbreak scene for being a bit of an ass and trolling the community to try to get people to pay for his iOS security lessons.
Funny bit, no real-world nuance.
I’ve had a few company’s I’ve dealt with where the ceo writes: name hi,

And it really throws me - I’m spending hours ensuring my emails / communication covers all angles and then they reply with this salutation.
If he didn't know he wouldn't say anything. Why risk saying something when there's a very high chance that it's something like sexual misconduct or fraud.
Altman has claimed before that he doesn't hold equity in OpenAI. He could have some kind of more opaque arrangement that gives him a material stake in the financial success of OpenAI, and downplayed it or didn't disclose it to the board.

Who knows, though -- I'm sure we'll find out more in the next few weeks, but it's fun to guess.
What are surgeons trying to prevent by wearing masks? Bacterial infections, which are a significant risk when surgeries are taking place because the skin is being compromised. Masks stop bacteria because they are significantly larger (10 times to 100 times larger) by comparison. Surgeons also wash their hands and wear gloves for the same reason. I don't think they should stop doing that either, but then I don't think the average person should be required to wear gloves either.
I don’t buy it. “Move fast and break things” is the mantra of Silicon Valley. A buggy rollout is classic, and IMHO no big deal.
The times of inferior chinese products are pretty much gone. I would even argue that in some cases they are better.
Do we have anything substantial?
Uh, I live in the UK. Public transport is only good when compared to cars in 5mph traffic in roads not designed for that many cars.

Say I live in Benson and want to get to the Oxford Science Park for work. Do I go for a walk and two busses at 1 hour or do I drive for 12 minutes?
If you're ever in the situation where you have your walls open and you want to install data cables, do yourself a favor and go nuts with some Smurf tubes. (ENT boxes and tubes.)

Run them all over the damn places, anywhere you might want Ethernet or coax or HDMI or whatever is big ten years from now. You don't even need to pull the Ethernet now; just put blank covers on the boxes you don't need.

Once you have the tubes in all your walls, future cable pulls become a snap; you don't even need fish tape half the time, you can just push Ethernet in one side and have it pop out the other.
They didn't say which ideology ;)
> The entire UI has been reworked to scale at larger screen sizes. We built most of this stuff for 640x480 CRTs and apparently some of you have upgraded since then.

I love this quip :D
Yeah but what could possibly be the scam? OpenAI's product works (most of the time).
M1 Mac Thunderbolt 4 ports mostly don't support 10Gb/s speed
From another post on their structure[1]

> Only a minority of board members are allowed to hold financial stakes in the partnership at one time. Furthermore, only board members without such stakes can vote on decisions where the interests of limited partners and OpenAI Nonprofit’s mission may conflict—including any decisions about making payouts to investors and employees.

So given the latest statement from the board emphasizing their mission, it could be that Brockman and Sutskever were not able to participate in the board decision to fire Altman, making it a 3-to-2 or 4-to-1 vote against Altman.

[1]: https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp
>I also find it maddening how boards of directors rush to insulate themselves from any possible issue and are so quick to throw overboard the very people who enabled the success that they get to participate in. I'm thinking particularly of Travis at Uber and how he was thrown out of the thing that he built from scratch...

This is an egregiously generous way of framing Travis Kalanick, and what happened to him.
So this is the reason Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI?
The most plausible explanation is that OpenAI tech was used for the military. That would explain why Eric Schmidt would not (and his immediate support) and that board is anti-mil tech enough to think those applications don’t “benefit all of humanity.”

Ilya and Mira probably didn’t know and might have discovered it recently and raised it with the board, hence the promotion. Note: both have Eastern-European ties, so if the application is in Ukraine, they could have strong feelings about it.
Greg co-signed or knew and didn’t tell.

Alternatively, Elon did, through Starlink and wanted to get revenge.

Alternatively, it could be a case where there was an option, Sam refused on ethical grounds without telling the board; they thought what is happening in Ukraine (or Gaza) justified the intervention. They confronted him and he lied.
Best I could find was this:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377785/Google-CEO-...

But:

- 15 million not 30.

- The women he had affairs with don't seem to have been prostitutes and a fair bit older than 18 too.

- His wife knew about it all and was apparently OK with it.

- Penthouses are pretty much the opposite of bunkers if you think about it.
Just because I say you are wrong doesn't mean you are wrong and vice versa. This also applies to the interview and the claims from the original article.
Discord Is Shutting Down Its Clyde Chatbot Experiment
Got any sources? I know many people, including a firefighter and sheriff, that burn wood outside on the many burn days, or use it in wood fireplaces.

Here's one such county ordinance
https://www.tuolumnecounty.ca.gov/365/Burn-Program
There's nothing to debate.

Your starting point is to selectively ignore parts of the authors explicitly chosen license.

It's sophistry.
Here he is defending the Jewish state from calls to violence

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725645884409401435

There is more nuance here than what the article is saying.
Not possible. It’s well known that the training data was not public domain. OpenAI was in the process of securing private agreements for more training data. They likely trained GPT-4 on every word ever written in a book, newspaper, website or social media network.

Given the wording and the apparent stepping down of the board chair, this is very likely a conflict between the grow at all costs startup folks and the AGI true believers. Sam was likely going to fully sell out and make himself filthy rich. The AGI cultists wanted to retain control over their Frankenstein’s monster.
^^^ This!

All but the wealthiest of retirees who make it into their 80’s and 90’s will spend any money they have on healthcare, until they are broke and then go on Medicaid.
"Alexa" would be a more specific search. "Amazon" and one or more of "jobs", "cuts", "lay", "layoff", etc., would also be useful.

Searching "amazon" alone, sorting by popularity, and limiting to the past 24 hours, turns up the prior submission as the first result:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...>

(For future readers, bound on today's date: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1700261998&dateRange=custom&...>)
This would be a cool thing to publish your work, because I too think it's pretty hilarious.
Electricity has always had two parts: production and distribution.

The problem with most places is that distribution is a natural monopoly: you don't want two or more lets of wires running to every house, so distribution monopolies are a natural consequence.

Production, however, is different; there's much more competition, which means that competitive pressure drives prices down.

Over time, distribution monopolies and other parties get more and more intertwined as they capture each other. The state uses distributors to levy taxes, unions parasitise the distributors and seek rents from their customers, companies capture regulators who set their prices, and that's why distribution is costly.

The beauty of rooftop solar is that you can completely disconnect yourself from the grid and thus the politics that drives prices up. It is true that giant solar farms in the desert and grid-scale batteries are more efficient, but they're captured and don't act in the customer's best interest.

In a world where distribution monopolies don't charge more than cost, where distributors are not agents of the state, rooftop solar would be more expensive than grid solar, but that's not the world we live in.
This came up before about a month ago but was repeatedly flagged into oblivion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785072

IIRC she had made these claims in the past but not so publicly.
He may not be fooling anyone. As someone else noted, if his interests and yours align you may be willing to look past his "badness". For example, Miles Bridges in the NBA. Seems like a genuinely bad guy who just got recactivated by an NBA team -- why? Probably because he can help them win games. I can almost guarantee no member of the front office would let their daughter date him, but they don't need him to be good for him to make them money.
True. He's certainly wealthy enough that no amount of "additional" money to his name would change his life in any notable manner.
More info: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4641962
We've somehow reached the point where the arguments for dismissing AI as hype are frequently more out of touch with reality than the arguments that AGI is imminent.
https://archive.is/rvcxr
In the early days of computing this was the same situation with CPUs.

However, I do want to complain about the poor tooling around GPUs, particularly package managers, and closedness of drivers. Getting stuff to work on your GPU is often a shitty and time-consuming experience.
Not insightful considering Microsoft is not majority owner of OpenAI.
I wanted to add that there are a bunch of factors at play in this optimization problem that might not be obvious. For example, there are diminishing returns in reduced wear from distributing load over more tires at some point. More tires & rolling parts also tend to increase rolling resistance, even ignoring extra weight that tends to come with a more complex design. Another potential advantage of having more axles is to reduce the frontal area of the vehicle by arranging tires in the direction of travel instead of putting them side by side on the same axle. Frontal area is a big component of the drag on a vehicle, along with speed and drag coefficient.
I just got back from a road trip in France and the UK and it's funny how much of the reddit-tier discourse is correct yet simultaneously so wrong. There are plenty of rural towns where everyone owns cars. There are highways, strip malls, large shopping centers with massive parking lots, and populated areas with bus service at best. The difference is the scale and the US lands embarrassingly far on one side of it. Even in the smallest rural towns in France we visited, we could hop on regional rail to the nearest large metro area.
WDYM? Meta's VR tech is solid. Not sure it's his fault it's not selling well because Zuck poisoned with Facebook and bullshit Metaverse features.
He's been known to be a piece of shit for years - recall that he did not found Tesla, he just out lawyered the actual founders and kicked them out of the company. He was already known to have abandoned his kids. All of his companies have had problems with sexism and racism.

The difference is now a large enough number of people are willing to publicly support this trash that he gets people telling him he's awesome for doing so, so he's happy to keep doing so on increasingly public platforms. He's essentially what happens if a reddit edgelord was a billionaire.
They are betting so much on Open AI just now.

They need to be so much more than a partner.

Being open is not in their nature.

Sadly it is usually the demise of innovation when they get their hook in.
Also Redditors.
Well, you could just make a free account.
I don't think there's any juicy scandal of the kind that people are expecting, both at YC or OpenAI. Sam Altman's defining characteristic is that he is well spoken, inoffensive and largely incompetent. His entire time in the tech industry has been him finding himself in a position of power, failing, and then falling upwards. It happened at Loopt, then YC, then Worldcoin, and now the same thing is just happening again at OpenAI. "Fake it till you make it" only works until the people around you who have been propping you up finally get tired of it.
This is a bit tangential but I feel like the meat of this notion is often misattributed.

“You need someone to steer the ship in the right direction.”

I think most people can handle the “right direction” part, so it really comes down to just needing _a person_, one person, who makes strategic decisions at a high level. And that’s it. I don’t think Sam is special here. I just think he was the guy in the spot.
Most likely thing: some kind of scandal. Perhaps Sam's sister's accusations.

Scariest thing: this was over some kind of AI safety decision. OpenAI has some new capability and there was disagreement over how to handle it.
FYI this is the base for running CS 1.6 in browser: https://play-cs.com/en/credits
>3. Interstellar Communications: Altman successfully made contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence using OpenAI’s technology. The board, unprepared for such a monumental discovery, decided to part ways with him to navigate this new cosmic frontier cautiously.

The message OpenAI received that caused the board to panic and fire Altman: <https://np.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/31bvbr/wp_fo...>
I hope not but I guess it's not totally unrealistic, given they even attended a Bilderberg conference together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPis68U7bdo
"Not consistently candid" implies that the board was naive, while "his personal conduct does not hold up the high standards openAI sets for ourselves" does not. So in that case they would use a different spin.
as good as any other theory. i’ll take it
Nice! Let me know if you try out aiconfig. We would love contributions
There's some Picasso quote about like, you have to demonstrate you can follow the rules before you can break the rules.

Grammar and punctuation is a competence signal, but once you've demonstrated you can do it (by getting to the top) it's not necessary.
True or not, there is something very clearly wrong with her and my heart goes out to her. If true, she's got one heck of an uphill battle if she desires anything from this other than ridicule.

Her current profession/circumstances would suggest some significant childhood sexual abuse.
And the great tear up of a rising star begins. Coming up the same day as Open AI firing. All ammo and guns are aimed at Sama.
It might have taken two years for some evidence that Altman misrepresented something ti the board during an initial examination of them to come to light, though.

Not that I think it has anything to do with that; I think it more likely has to do with some kind of money issue tied to the LLC, given reports of others impacted, on and off the board.
why even tweet
That matches with their extreme hurry to get rid of Sam, but it seems like this would be something the CTO would have had knowledge of and she seems to be trusted.
I guess it just depends on what you want to do. Training AI? Probably better off renting computer at this point. Everyday use? I still have a 1070 in my main workstation that has survived three computer upgrades. I am looking to upgrade, but I’m not in a hurry.
What's lazy about it?! You still understood the message
I can appreciate your opinion and I would point out that the scientist that examined the data stated the fact there is no proof masks are effective. A belief that they are effective would need to be thoroughly tested with a double-blind study to provide proof of such a belief. Until then it is a belief, much like a religious belief.
Winnie, the 123-year-old, jam sandwich-eating tortoise
The number of times people have to wait 40 minutes for their 15 minute charge is definitely non-zero
Reminds me of when drivers of expensive cars don't indicate when changing lanes.
Paul Graham saw this guy and immediately went “pattern matches my ideal genius”. My goodness.
There are tons of options for carrying kids on a bike. Made even easier when you add electric assist.
like SBF and his effective altruism?
People disagree, people don't want to deal with ICE maintenance.
Where I come from that means you can adopt a looser style as well, and don't need to bother writing formally with that person. It's considered "friendly".

In fact in German it would be really awkward if one person stuck to formal language when the other makes an attempt to be informal - sticking to it is like saying "keep your distance" and could be a little hurtful for the person who tried to be informal.

I'm curious how this is supposed to play out in English.
No one pulled the plug; it gave itself a board seat.
I've met Sam 3 times over the years, before he ever started openAI. He was always extremely generous with his time and willing to help others without asking anything in return. I am shocked to hear this news, and hope he will recover and continue his work.
Lesswrong is a treasure. A scrupulously fair, highly detailed record. My verdict is that she's delusional. An example of this is her claiming she was shadow banned from all internet platforms except onlyfans and pornhub. That cannot be true.

https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/170997828542437802...

Reminds me of a recent story of a college professor who claims another college professor has hacked her computer/phone/internet accounts and is constantly making coded references to her private conversations. https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-harassment-case-that-h...
Government regulation is a defensive moat for incumbents. These folks asked for regulation to keep the dogs off their heels...
Via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38311509
I made a game in a similar style:

https://internetfight.club/

State your hot take, then yell back and forth with a stranger until one of you rage quits.
These accusations have been made for some time now and they have cycled through popularity several times. Each time I have yet to see any proof.

Of course, with the recent news they are getting more attention, and once again, we have it surface. I will admit it’s a little weird that he has not sued her for such ruinous claims, but this is a family issue, so I can understand not escalating the issue.

As the author concludes, "However, Annie has not yet provided what I would consider direct / indisputable proof that her claims are true. Thus, rationally, I must consider Sam Altman innocent.”

To those complaining that this topic keeps getting removed from YC, imagine if every random allegation (with no proof) against some CEO got discussed.

I personally flagged this post as I have seen the same allegations with no change in information posted so many times.
Since both Sam and Greg are gone, that implies a 4-2 decision, which is as far from unanimous decision as a 6-person board could possibly make.
That is one of the places my mind went, but with the availability of open-source language models, it's pretty unlikely. You can run a language model yourself and observe that it's almost as good as ChatGPT, so there is no question that OpenAI is capable of providing the services they do in the way they say they do.