skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These allegations date all the way back from 2021, and the sister has made some other dubious claims like Sam hacking her wifi which erode her credibility. I highly doubt that this was the cause of his removal.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38311645
Really different between private and public companies. Recent hilarious piece from Matt Levine that was discussed on HN: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-16/hacker...
Beyond this: is it conceivable for Microsoft to enter an agreement of this scale without the due diligence that the board would be even remotely amenable?
If you thought the large trucks people call half ton weight only 1000 lbs, you have such a disconnect with reality and the physical world that I can't even relate. If a half ton Chevy truck weighs 1000 lbs, what did you think a Honda Civic weighs? As much as the driver and passenger?
Making lasting memories: Remembering the significant (2013) [pdf]
The Mechanical Turk really played chess.
From someone who actually had dealings with him during Loopt days...

Please for the love a deity stop!

I know from first hand experience that Sam always deals with people and business deals above board...even got first row seats to see how a real first rate pitch deck is created and pitched.

Rant mode off....
Unless I’m missing something she never mentions having repressed or reclaimed memories, and certainly in a quick skim of the linked article there’s nothing I can see where she specifically details recovering detailed repressed memories with the help and guidance of someone acting as a psychotherapist (the “junk science” associated with the Satanic Panic of the 80s, where “psychotherapists” of often dubious training and
always with an agenda guided children to the story the agenda demanded), she just describes some of the memories as things she “buried”. It’s not obvious that a single one or the accusations, much less the “core” ones, is based on the kind of Satanic Panic-style repressed memories you’re talking about.

Now, dismiss my 40+ years of living with CPTSD if it makes you more comfortable, but I never (once) “repressed” memories, and I certainly never had someone else walk me through memories I didn’t actively have to try and help me “recover” details… what I had was memories I really, really didn’t want to think about or give a lot of credence to, because doing so would push me into a flashback state, especially if I focused on the more horrifying details or tried too hard to establish a clear and consistent sequence. I tried, hard, to bury those memories — I still try hard to bury them, though nowadays more by trying to bury them with acceptance rather than bury them through avoidance — but memories I’ve always had and didn’t want is not the same as memories I didn’t have and after the intervention of another now do.

I don’t see a lot of reasons to see her claims as either unreasonable or unhinged… if they’re as consistently stated as presented in the linked post they should likely be presumed to be true, especially if stated in public, for exactly the same reason all such claims should be presumed true.
Though for the US, it would be clearly unconstitutional.
I agree with the criticisms but don't agree that they invalidate twin studies to the extent that it's reasonable to believe cognitive traits are 100% nurture.

Yes, some older studies used odd statistical modelling. Yes, the specific number they put on heritability might be biased by a few factors. Yes, people lie on self-report surveys. Yes, adoption studies are biased by who agrees to sign up. Yes, in utero conditions falsely appear as heritability in twin studies. These are all valid criticisms in that they affect the precision of the measurement, but they're not enough to fully write off heritability as a whole. We've identified SNPs that correlate with IQ and education attainment, too, so there's an obvious mechanism.

I think it's better to tell people the truth: achievement is a murky blend of nature and nurture interacting together, the factors seem to be important in different proportions for different people, and we only understand it imprecisely and at a population level. Further complicating the matter, ability at birth can be broken down into heritability and environmental factors before birth. Our chicken processor probably tried his hardest and can feel good. His daughter can do better if she's lucky and works hard. There's no need to take an extreme view where "talent" (meaning something like potential at birth) must be 0% or 100% of achievement, or to tell that to people, because from what we know it's somewhere in the middle.
The other day I came across an ad in the form of a sponsored post (with an official Twitter link inviting me to follow the screenshotted accounts) for 'feetfinders.com', a foot fetish website. It was teasing $195 bounties for pics of good looking feet trampling apple pie.
The GPT 4 Turbo responses changed noticeably in quality, to the better. After launch they weren't up to expectations initially
Tweet with comments on nitter:
https://nitter.net/EricNewcomer/status/1725633569056506282
Genuinely curious here: why not keypass?
Superintelligent AGI. I genuinely think that limited weak AGI is an engineering problem at this stage. Mind you, I will qualify that by saying very weak AGI.
I'm pretty confident it's not a personal scandal (or if it is, it's one that is truly monumental and that there hasn't even been a rumor of).

If it was a personal scandal, the messaging around his dismissal would have been very, very different. The messaging they gave makes it clear that whatever dirty deed he did, he did it to OpenAI itself.
i’ll bite.

it might sound dumb to you, but not capitalizing sentences properly amongst certain groups effectively means you’re not concerned with the optics of being viewed as someone who “doesn’t know grammar”.

it sort’ve displays a certain “I know proper grammar but I don’t really care to prove it to you”.

edit: and as others mention, it can be seen as less formal and friendly as well

don’t shoot the messenger :)
Yeah. OpenAI is valuable not just commercially, but to the worlds governments, some of which can probably find ways to force out leadership they don't get along with.
That's fine, I was just asking if you were implying particular knowledge about things that happened, because it kinda sounded like it.
Your point #1 was the case for our family as well. E-bikes allowed us to go from two cars to one car which has been amazing. So many of these conversations get caught up in ban bikes vs. ban cars and it is exhausting.
Probably about the same thing as what is open about The Open Group (formed when X/Open merged with The Open Software Foundation), the Open Look graphical interface, and such abuses of "open". OpenGL, OpenMax, ...
About 5 years ago, my CEO emailed me with something like 'yo! can you do me a favor'. Middle management was CCed on the email thread and when I responded something like 'Sure! Happy to help', I was chewed out by my director for being informal and thus disrespectful...
He seems a very ambitious person and if you take him for his word he has 0% equity in openAI which must irratate him at some level.

So since we are all speculating could it be something like wanting to "download" entire chatgpt pass it to some friends, then start his own rival company where he has 100% equity? But then he got caught by CTO?
I mean, if there's a company that doesn't care about user privacy, that's Discord.
You can certainly use your imagination to picture a universe unlike anything we've come to understand about our universe. But in doing so you're still engaging with a rule-based system to some degree. "Ideas interacting in God's mind" is still sensible enough that you could communicate the notion to me using words. To be utterly free of rules is to be inconceivable, much less subject to communication. The only way we can begin to gesture towards a system without rules is by way of opposition to rule-based systems. But all of our cognitive tools are useless at getting a hold of the concept, because it by definition eschews penetration by cognitive tools. You may say denying the possibility of such a universe lacks imagination; I say it identifies the limits of imagination as such. The limits of imagination, the limits of conceivability, are the limits of cognitive access and sense-making.

I agree there are a lot of interesting debates going on. I just don't think philosophical consensus has much evidentiary value. Philosophy is the process of turning intuitions into concrete positions on philosophical subject matter. But no one's intuitions are better suited to me than my own. There's no substitute for just doing the work of understanding an idea and weighing the credence for oneself.
Interesting, although the host requirements are a bit stringent for a casual. https://cloud.vast.ai/host/setup
At a minimum the AGI would need a really good GPU server farm to copy itself to, no? A few Terabytes copied to my home PC would be an out of memory error, not an AGI.
This is actually a common misconception. In blind testing, the average listener reliably prefers the more accurate speaker. There is a talk [1] by Dr. Floyd Toole that is an excellent crash course on the science of sound reproduction and listener preference.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrpUDuUtxPM
>The number of Google hits I get when I search on

That is an incredibly weak and ill-informed method for vetting technical matters.

>Why are you now shifting your ground?

Python doesn't have a standard.
Six Things to know about Mira Murati, OpenAI's new interim CEO
Friday afternoon news dump
As someone who is the Treasurer/Secretary of a 501(c)(3) non-profit I can tell you that is it always possible for a non-profit to bring in more revenue than it costs to run the non-profit. You can also pay salaries to people out of your revenue. The IRS has a bunch of educational material for non-profits[1], and a really good guide to maintaining your exemption [2].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/publications-for-e...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4221pc.pdf
This is apparently a FAQ when it comes to C65 emulation, and as such, the developer of Hi65 has answered it in quite a few places already.

There aren't _that_ many -- few leaked, so it's not a big array of kit. The latest ROM would be preferable, and possibly fixing any outstanding bugs in it.

Another alternative is simply to emulate the Mega65.

https://mega65.org/

This could be the chance for a rebirth for the machine and thus set the standard rather than trying to follow it.
More like an AI tech Legion of Doom.
Makani: Massively parallel AI based weather and climate models
You have linked to a description of the strange profit cap model where profits are capped at 100x investment. This makes no mention of AGI
As a thought experiment: these "opposites" aren't really that far apart if you think of Musk's political demographic as consisting, in part, of Christian eschatologists (i.e. people who are simultaneously anti-Semitic and pro-Israel).

That doesn't mean that he himself is one, only that his grift currently lies with some of those people.
Obvious to us, but (because of the way shadow banning works) not obvious to her!
I'm having trouble remembering a single time a very high profile CEO has been fired from a company that for all intents and purposes is running laps around competition at the moment...

I assume more info will come out, but it sounds more like a major ethics breach than a business only decision or even a "contentious relationship with the board" decision...
>Code which was committed to repositories didn't match the actual running code

I remember the first time I saw this at a small company. The head programmer was the only one with the actual production source, despite a working source control system. He complained about how people didn't appreciate how hard it is to make builds work. I should have left when we lost three man months of code to losing email. I only left after screaming at the head programmer for refusing to stop making the repository unbuildable at all.
Feels like something like this plus some deal with microsoft for further funding and sama getting too aggressive with terms and them having him ousted
This was my reaction as well. If a competent doctor had prescribed her medication and she took herself off of it without medical supervision, I think it is pretty reasonable to condition money on going back on medication (or at least going back to medical supervision). Many people who have family members struggling with mental health concerns take this approach.
Let's say a piece of software licensed like this becomes popular and is non-trivial to replicate.

At some point, a significant enough portion will be two years old and changed to the escrowed license. A fully open source fork will become tempting for pragmatic and ideological reasons.

If forked, what are the odds the copyright holder will re-license their source code for the sake of control & profit?

Every semi-open license/core tactic is just a rug-pull waiting to happen.
A mismatch in formality is noticeable too in English, from my experience. It think it's a bit more subtle compared to other languages, as there is no formal "you" (in contrast to "du" versus Sie" in German, "tu" and "vous" in French, "tú" and "usted" in Spanish, "你" and "您" in Mandarin, and examples in other languages).

However, one difference in English is with greetings. If you are coworkers, especially at around the same age and seniority, it feels unnatural to say "Dear ___," versus "Hey ____" or "Hi ____" (experiences may vary based on organizational culture). It's noticeable with texting, too. If you were to use formal punctation and end all texts with a period (such as: "Hi." or "I'm fine."), the texts may be perceived as less friendly (in contrast to: "hi" or "no prob, it's all good").

I believe that informality in English communication is often a signal of how close the relationship is. Though some people speak with others with a high level of formality even in their close relationships (or alternatively, speak informally in nearly all contexts), a change over time from formality to informality is often a sign of growing closeness and trust. Long story short, this plays out the same as you've described the effect in English, at least for personal relationships.

For professional relationships, it depends on the person and the organization. I generally try to roughly mirror the level of formality of the person who I'm speaking with. However, if I'm reporting to a person with higher seniority than me, I do try to have at least a minimum level of formality. Even if a CEO were to send a text in a very friendly and informal way, I would try to be polite but at least semi-formal.

More explicitly, the Korean language makes the different possible levels of speech clearer. This source [1] identifies five to six levels of formality in Korean (Wikipedia identifies a higher seventh level reserved for historical dramas, addressing royalty, and religious texts). So, even if a coworker were to address me with the Korean equivalent of "plain" or "intimate" speech ("heya {name}", all in lower case), I've found it the most comfortable to respond in at least a familiar or polite way ("hey {Name}..." or "Hey {Name}"...).

That way, there is both a sense of respect and a sense that there is an attempt to match the person's level of familiarity. There is then less of a chance that a person might feel uneasy due to either too much familiarity or excessive formality on my part, which makes communications easier.

[1] https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anthropology/Li...
Or, Sam really was the last key thing restraining AI capabilities from exploding upwards, and the AI just engineered his departure.
I bet the data breach being covered up is not customer data, but IP. My #2 theory is that the breach is prompt data and it went to a nation-state adversary of the US. Plenty of people putting sensitive work info into ChatGPT when they shouldn’t.
The world would be a better place if we committed fewer atrocities with less ;)
He will be ok!

Either a position in Microsoft or a new start-up.

Or both.

What does it mean for OpenAI though? That’s a limb sawn off for sure.
Keep in mind that adguard's main product is a desktop version that effectively mitm's all traffic so they can block requests or locally inject JS & CSS directly into the page without needing browser extensions (which is admittedly pretty clever, but I don't like the local proxy approach). Purely from a business perspective, MV3 is actually good for them because it means that this desktop approach becomes the only viable option for full-control over the request lifecycle.
Why a yes for Kenneth Lay? Do you think the experience of running a scam is transferable to a real business? Or do you not consider enron a scam? Or do you think the line between scams and businesses is so blurred that the skill doing them is the same?
I think it depends on whose data was revealed, and the nature of the data.
Make GPTs for Your Docs
There's no theoretical reason why it can't be good. The Tesla Semi is capable of significant regenerative braking capacity over long downhill stretches. Tesla's marketing claim featured a route which included Grapevine Mountain — which has a 4136ft elevation. They assert that it was capable of continuous regenerative braking, though it's not clear how much friction braking was involved. (It's almost certain that some trailer braking was involved for safety and stability.)
Obviously. In Monaco.
From his original post:

musk: "The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.

This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.

It is not right and needs to stop."

whatsupfranks: "Yes, but this is not fair to say or truthful to say that ‘Jewish communities’ promote dialectical hatred towards white. Say what you want about the ADL, but don’t generalize the Jewish community."

musk: "You right that this does not extend to all Jewish communities, but it is also not just limited to ADL"

musk: "And, at the risk of being repetitive, I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind."

To me, it does not sound like Musk hates Jews, honestly don't know how anyone can take that away from this exchange.
Any alternative that has a simple USB connector?
In my experience bikes with Bosch/Bafang motors/batteries will be more reliable and easier to find service for. There are many brands/options/price points with that constraint.
less is more
and tone is everything
This is the most likely. Also considering Humane recently announced their AI Pin and Sam has a large stake in that company.
Remember the time those kids were trapped in a flooded cave, and when people pointed out that Elon's mini-sub idea was stupid, he responded by calling the guy who actually rescued them a child molester? He's been kind of a piece of shit for a while, it's just that more people are noticing now.
Fair enough, in that case it seems I missed their point then. Sorry.
The suddenness of the firing, and the bridge-burning language (basically "he lied to us") rather than any sort of soft exit, suggests that it must be something in the "other" bucket.

The details are anyone's guess. But if we're engaging in wild speculation, how about this weird coincidence: one day after Xi Jinping and Sam Altman are in the same place, Sam Altman is abruptly fired.
"what are ya gonna do, fire me? lol"
- sama
This is his sister's Twitter:

https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy
XD I love this theory
Yes I know but it's not like Android is really opened either. Unless "patch your own rom if you are unhappy" counts.
Non-sarcastically, yes. The USB-C hub I use to connect my laptop works perfect charging my iPhone and Android my phone while providing gigabit speeds to the android and USB 2 speeds to my iPhone!

Not in my bathroom yet though, I'm still renting.
Universal Access to Email: Feasibility and Societal Implications (1995)
The tech that works in it is still Qualcomm.

The UI is going to be the same that the other quest headsets have
Afaik yes; largest owner in the for-profit subsidiary.

I think, the fact that it happened at 3:30 means: they didn't. Its now 7pm, and nothing new has come to light; they could have waited 31 minutes, but they didn't.

That's why I used the word "slight"; put another way, it was uncourteous for them to not wait. They probably should have. It clearly wasn't hyper-urgent (though, could still be kinda-urgent). But pointedly: they didn't need to wait, because the board has no technical, legal responsibility to Microsoft. Its extremely possible Microsoft didn't even know this was happening.
Google didn't just pay Rubin $90M because they want to reward abusers. Rubin's contract had a huge component of his comp tied to Android's success. If Google tried to withhold that bonus, Rubin would have sued. People don't just walk away from a hundred million dollars without a fight. Imagine the disaster that would have transpired if Rubin won his case: Google would been seen as trying to cheat an employee out of bonuses with a false misconduct allegation. Imagine the hell it would have been to be the woman in that situation.

People who said Google should have withheld Rubin's compensation are operating under the assumption that Google would have prevailed in the inevitable lawsuit.
i see no such correlation

you have been misled by sample bias

people lower down in the org do the same or worse

basically under-35s view punctuation and speaking in complete sentences as boomer artefacts

not my choice just telling it like i see it
Ah my old friend Whataboutism. We meet again. https://theconversation.com/whataboutism-what-it-is-and-why-...
No. The issue is more than just short term benefits for the consumer (price cuts). It's about anti-dumping to ensure the long-term health of the industry.
16K total so far, according to this (https://insideevs.com/news/694422/ford-f150-lightning-us-sal...) It will be interesting to see the run rate for the CT, if it is quite low it will make news.
If there is an incident where people can see other's people chats there are two possibilities:

-It's a server issue, meaning someone fucked up their javascript and cached a session key or something. It's a minor thing; could get the specific dev fired in the worst case, and it is embarrassing, but it is solvable.

-it's inherent to how the AI works, and thus it is impossible to share a ChatGPT server with someone else without sooner or later leaking knowledge. It would mean the company cannot scale at all cause they'd need to provide each client their own separate server instance.

If this was something Sam knew and kept it from the board, that'd be fireable. And it'd be catastrophic, cause it'd mean no useable product until a solution is found.

I'd somehow doubt it is something like this, but if we see security issues and private chats that keep leaking, it is a possibility.
I admit I was wrong here, it seems they finally reached the 90s levels. I'll also check for the current year just in case since 2020 could have been affected by covid.
Oh man this makes me miss when websites had fun and did this kind of stuff with Flash
People can be different in different contexts. More so than in any other aspect of life, anecdotes do not paint a complete picture.
Why do people think it has to be some single big incident? Sam Altman has been the head of OpenAI for many years now, while the company has been in intense public spotlight only in the recent few months. The dynamic today is very different from 2019 or whenever he was hired. He also doesn't have any voting shares, which means he is entirely at the mercy of the board. It's entirely possible that they simply don't like the direction he has been taking the company in, and today was more of some minor straw that broke the camel's back situation.