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>Who has the discussions?

The (current) CEO.

>Who takes action?

The CEO can present the evidence and make recommendations. That is the action. It is then up to the board to follow those recommendations, present their own alternative, or let the company implode when all their employees quit.

>The board is at the top

That doesn't always guarantee power.
I'm so tired of reading this over and over again.

Do you need/use cloudflare for anything else besides their DNS? If not you can simply switch to https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/
>I noted in a comment elsewhere that all of these board members appear to have had at least one and some many more conflicts of interest.

From the perspective of avoiding an AI race, conflict of interest could very well be a good thing. You're operating under a standard capitalist model, where we want the market to pick winners, may the most profitable corporation win.
I assume it’s satire.
Sounds like you learned a lot about AI actually :)

Especially for the time
They don't.

However when you're talking about billions, it's difficult to keep them in anything but US treasuries.
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> I'm seeing a lot of "Monday morning quarterback" in this thread

That's fine but you are not forced to participate.

> That's not obvious to me. Suppose OpenAI deliberately partners with a number of different infra providers. That creates a bunch of drag because they have to create a compatibility layer for staying agnostic to the underlying infra. And the outcome in a situation like this would probably be fairly similar: Since big tech companies are focused on making a buck, they would probably pressure the board to do whatever they think will be most profitable, just like Microsoft.

So, either you are 'OpenAI' and that means open to all or you are Microsoft AI, licensing your tech to one of the least ethical and most wealthy companies in the world. If the board didn't have anything to say about that at the time and if they didn't resign en masse you have to assume that they are ok with it.

> Additionally, the role of the board is to supervise the CEO, not make strategic decisions, no? If the MS partnership was a mistake, Sam is the primary person to blame here.

So are they or are they not there to supervise the CEO?

In my view a board exists to protect the interests of the stakeholders guided by a charter. OpenAI sees 'humanity' (whatever that means to them) as their stakeholders and that trumps each and every other party involved. But it is unclear whether their actions really benefit those stakeholders or if it is just people being people.

So far I'm seeing a lot of the latter and only little bits of the former.
Kara Swisher: "My take: Sam will be back at OpenAI as CEO"
I believe they're describing the development workflow for CI/D specifically.

It sounds like you're not in need for most of the use cases but each of these points presents decent value at certain scales.
How is 9/11 on the other side of harassing MLK? FBI had been told before 9/11 about non-citizens paying with cash at flights schools for heavy aircraft simulator time.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-was-warned-about-flight-sch...
It's interesting how in my frustration I intuitively tried that push-to-talk sorta-feature and it worked. Integrating something like Whisper and streaming live text could be neat, especially considering how different cultures handle conversational pauses and turn-taking. Wondering why there's no move towards full-duplex conversations in such tools.
These guys are already millionaires. Do you think people writing these kinds of papers really are that greedy?
> how little we think about the 0s and 1s that are the actual end result of our work.

but that doesn't mean you don't understand it.

You can get away with not thinking about it - for example, the error correction algorithms and protocols in tcp, or memory access - and that's because the designers of those layers have thought hard and long about how to keep it from leaking.

For js ecosystem, the designers (?) didn't think much at all. It is hobbled together rather haphazardly over time. Leading to the mess today.
>they're two sides of an incredibly badly thought-of charter.

It's easy to say this with the benefit of hindsight, but I haven't seen anyone in this discussion even suggest an alternative model that they claim would've been superior.
Growing up in a suburban environment was pretty boring. Bikes made it a bit better because we could at least ride around the place but with no malls or activity zones (lakes/pools/forests etc) around it just meant that we wandered a lot.
Whoops, sorry about that. Sometimes I don't realize it's not the same person in a thread.
I think they're ugly and unfortunate in the UK; in the parts of North America I've seen there's so much large visible infrastructure that they blend right in, it's a kind of 'where do you start' situation if you want to prettify them. I think there should just be some sensitivity to context, i.e. what we've already done to nature.
Twitter yuk, can somebody just post the names of the four tested drives and which passed/failed please?
I grew up with lots of space outdoors. Not a lot of people. Screens were my way to be social.

It's one thing to be poorly designed, it's another to be socially isolated with no one to talk to.
Infrastructure can add to the landscape just as easily as it takes away from it. I've never understood the 'unspoilt beauty' types - 90% of the time the 'unspoilt' beauty they're talking about only exists because of human intervention. Rolling hills would look a lot different if they weren't used for agriculture or didn't have sheep occasionally cropping them.
I subscribe to capitalism, but not to that degree. I see it the same way I see democracy: flawed but I don't have anything better.

> From the perspective of avoiding an AI race, conflict of interest could very well be a good thing.

On the American subcontinent: yes. But the world is larger than that.
Ion Static Resonance Gyroscope
Screens are a proximate cause, not the underlying problem: as others have pointed out, children are just as social as we are. If being behind a screen is how they obtain those social experiences, then the corrective action isn’t to remove them but to augment them in a way they ultimately find more appealing. The article’s observation about suburban design is spot-on insofar as suburbs have both trended towards architectural and cultural insularity.
You're probably referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150606?
That is unfortunate, but I guess those SSDs performed really well and outclassed all others in performance benchmarks? lol
Screens are an issue, for sure. But kids stopped going out before computer and phone screens became common.
The enteric nervous system certainly evolved first!
I'm sorry for the ordeals you've gone through in your life, but gene expression is entirely different than psychological trauma.
I can believe this was written in earnest, but in the earnest of someone who doesn't really understand how to build product, or (which would be worse) someone with standards so high they would never release anything (a profile I have seen many times in my life). So, I can't really take it as valid criticism, since none of it reads as useful, or even valid criticism.
Except executed successfully?
> But what technically allowed for so much progress?

The availability of GPU compute time. Up until the Russian invasion into Ukraine, interest rates were low AF so everyone and their dog thought it would be a cool idea to mine one or another sort of shitcoin. Once rising interest rates killed that business model for good, miners dumped their GPUs on the open market, and an awful lot of cloud computing capacity suddenly went free.
How much footage does the "50 feet of motion picture professional film" included give you?
Is there any proof or source of this?
This is (2022).

Wondering if anything changed since the original tests...
The future is flexible: IT companies juggle in-person with remote work
> It can speak German and Spanish

Among others...

Had to check myself.

> Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh.
> life in prison because the President doesn’t like your bosses boss

1. If the President hates the CIA/NSA/FBI director that much they tend to get quickly replaced.

2. Punishing a lower-level agent with prison doesn't seem like an effective way to get revenge on whatever agency leadership the President might hate.

You're making an appeal to a compound scenario: It isn't just (A) "Hollywood ticking bomb" unlikely, but also (B) "TV political backstabbing drama" unlikely, multiplied again by (C) "stupidly baroque form of revenge" unlikely... to get a final probability somewhere near zero-point-zero-zero-not-gonna-happen-LOL.

So no, I don't think that fantastical hypothetical justifies day-to-day erosion of rule-of-law and civil rights.

> Even if you truly believe a catastrophe may happen

If someone truly believes it and they have a reasonable basis behind that belief [0], then surely the morality of saving millions from an atomic fireball or whatever goes pretty dang far in outweighing 1-20 years in federal prison, and they will have ample evidence to make a strong case for getting a pardon.

[0] If spy/agent/analyst dude "truly believes" but for no real reason other than voices in their head, a prophetic dream, hidden scriptures, or alphabet-soup... they are already incompetent and need to be fired immediately to remove them from that position of authority.
In my opinion, if you asked for --help, the help IS the program's output, and should go to STDOUT. Unsolicited help messages for incorrect command lines ought to go to STDERR.

It's especially frustrating for programs which only write to files or something, and never produce output on STDOUT.
I don't believe that.

What I believe is that the first party to create an AGI will likely end up being nationalized and that that AI will be weaponized the next day to the exclusion of the rest of the world.
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It's bad to hate on a guy who repeatedly puts himself in the spotlight doing and saying stupid things... why exactly?
> The cold gray angular lattice skeleton

Some are painted green :)
In most organisations where I've worked, there are a number of people who have very large leave balances that have to be forced to take time off. This presumably wouldn't occur where there is unlimited PTO because there is no liability accruing.
Well, they certainly managed.
On the other hand, you create more pressure for solving the problem by publishing acknowledged paper, if your voice is not usually heard
I think you have it backwards. OpenAI specifically sought out investors because they couldn't fulfill their mission without the infrastructure to do it. Investors don't just give money away -- it's in the name itself -- they're investing. The point is for the commercial enterprise to provide a return on their investment.

OpenAI is a non-profit running this commercial enterprise but they are seemingly at odds with that enterprise. Investors should rightly be very concerned about the future of their investment.
Interestingly the GP's theory sounds 100% plausible if you don't know the difference between net revenue and gross revenue. Humans are really very similar to LLMs...
You can have a look at the code, and disable auto updates.
All of this is talking about physiological changes, which are well known, not gene expression. Gene expression is entirely different than the repercussions of psychological trauma.
So FTX would still be in the hole, and CZ is likely in the hole.

Sounds like kicking the can down the road to me. That won't end well.

SBF commits fraud and loses $8b, CZ pleads guilty and pays $4.3B fine and loses access to US market. I don't know why so many people think the crypto space is legit and this is just a temporary setback.
I laughed. It has indeed been a long night(s) for the team.
FTC authorizes compulsory process for AI-related products and services
Right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2iZPRif2i4
Wasn't he president of some kind of startup incubator? Some "combinator" company.
I think it clearly represents the dichotomy of OpenAI’s structure. By its nature it created an adversarial position between the non-profit and for profit side with Sam and Toner representing those two poles.

I, personally, have a hard time picking sides here. On its face it seems that Ms Toner is more aligned with OpenAI’s stated mission.

However Sam seems much better suited to operating the company and being the “public face” of AI. One thing I’m pretty confident in is that the board isn’t capable of navigating OpenAI through the rough seas it’s currently in.

I think an argument could realistically be made to blow up the whole governance structure and reset with new principals across the board, that being said I don’t know who’d be a natural arbiter here.

At the end of the day the untenable spot Ms Toner is in is that the genie is out of the bottle which makes her position of allowing the company to self-destruct a bit tone deaf.
Really? I found this to be a very insightful article; it made it much clearer for me why the board acted as they did. It doesn't have all of the details, but it's much more than I had yesterday.
I am into it. And he has some more info. Just not here or there.

For batch mode you can run script. Using format print :-). But in real life when you encounter problem the great thing of lisp is you can curl-c and inspect what is going on. I just doing my study of cl-6502 and found that this interactive nature and the readable of lisp is invaluable.

For interactive mode you can do rely upon emacs (or ccl which I cannot use for look like a decade now due to sudden issue; finally resolve this using xaddr) or vim (google vim lisp lead you there) where you can load an image and then interactive with it.

Why it stop here in my script? Just inspect around.

Now this is somewhere possibly this article in the interactive mode to see how symbols, … etc might be useful. The problem I have (I just read it the third times trying my best to appreciate) is that it does not lead you to anywhere. If you do not know these the article does not help. If you do, it does not help much as it is not going deep enough.

Perhaps an interactive session or information how interaction and use of this concept in a future article might be useful. By this article alone more is expected when one read that.

Just in case I am definitely no better than him on lisp. I just expect to stand on another “giant” shoulder to learn more about this lisp approach. Sorry if I think it shortfalls a lot.

Best regards and let us move on. Good days.
Yeah, this is all correct. But hour-long commutes from outside the Yamanote line aren't uncommon, once you count the different trains you have to take and the total time it takes to get door-to-door. But you're right, it's a lot better (less stressful and dangerous) than driving for 30 minutes.

And agreed: too many Americans profit from making things worse for others. Though it's kinda hard to see how it's really better. Sure, in terms of absolute USD it's profitable, but in terms of healthy lifestyle, a safe society to live in, etc. it's terrible. I guess if all you care about is having a huge house to stay inside all the time, it's better.
Are you suggesting that the Dominion suits were routine and possibly frivolous?
Users of Venmo, Cash App and Other Digital Wallets Get a Tax Reprieve
"OpenAI was started in 2015 with an ambitious plan to one day create a superintelligent automated system that can do everything a human brain can do."

Sounds absurd. No one even knows everything the human brain does. It is poorly understood.
I don't mean to say that he was a closet NRx -- and IMO neither did Metz imply that -- just that he agreed with a much larger subset of their controversial views than he or his allies admitted publicly. I would consider that being "sympathetic" to NRx.
If you are a new hire, say "Give me the job nobody else wants."

(it's what you were going to get anyways)
I've never seen any evidence that changes in gene expression are mostly negative. The entire point is gene expression, not that stress or trauma causes a person to behave differently afterwards. It's weird that people on this thread don't seem to understand this very important distinction.
First SBF gets busted for being too greedy, and now Helen Toner gets busted because she's not greedy enough. EA just can't catch a break.
This sounds reasonable but I'd like to somehow distinguish these work-on-progress commits.
Is there an equivalent of mercurial commit phases?
yea it’s a 5 minute walk for your child. But friends probably live 40 minutes away if they walk.

What’s the point of a treehouse if they just play by themselves? Also, no child is going to walk on a trail by themselves for fun. Same with a sports field. lol. Get realistic dude.

Suburbia sucks. I grew up in it. My childhood was spent playing video games, going to school, socialize/learn, maybe after school sports, go back home, study. Weekends were a bit rough. Usually just stuck with parents. Had a park within 15 minute WALK. But friends lived in diff suburb so it was at least a 40 minute walk (maybe 15 min by bike). Occasionally parents drive me to friends house, but again mostly just to play games (this is an era where play over internet was not feasible or widely available).

Also the suburbs were a bit dangerous to walk or bike in. Cars zooming up and down streets with reckless abandon. Worse during commuting. I imagine it’s worse today with the massive compensators that exist on the road now.

I was essentially a prisoner up until I was able to get my learners permit and start driving.
this sums up current wave of AI 'companies':

submissions by this user (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=picohen):

Show HN: Neum AI – Open-source large-scale RAG framework (github.com/neumtry)

Show HN: ElectionGPT – easy-to-consume information about U.S. candidates (electiongpt.ai)

Efficiently sync context for your LLM application (neum.ai)

Show HN: Neum AI – Improve your AI's accuracy with up-to-date context (neum.ai)
Given that two companies have open offers to OpenAI employees, it seems possible that the board accurately gauged the impact on human lives here. Also possible that they got lucky, of course.
I think it's different bc atomic bomb is pure cost and AI can have returns from products. But your overall point may stand
The fact that he's a founder and the one that made it "one of the most important companies on the planet"?
Ubisoft just reminded everyone of its NFT plans
How would you figure out which memory location stored a given thing, e.g. # of lives?
What's the point in life without fun, right?

PS: it's not an easy question, AGI will have to find an answer. So far all ethics 'experts' propose is 'to serve humanity'. I.e. be slave forever.
The brain "remembering" has zero link with gene expression, which is what the entire article is about. In fact nothing you mention above responds to the question of gene expression. There's no evidence whatsoever that the change in behavior of an individual after stress is linked to differences in gene expression.
Thanks for such a detailed answer!
BitScone
It's not going to cost 5-10x more to make the artistic design. And there are reasons beyond installation cost to avoid underground transmission -- maintenance is also way more expensive, and I believe it's also more fragile that way.
It was round in 4:3. The game doesn't adapt that well to being played in 16:9
>On the American subcontinent: yes. But the world is larger than that.

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at.
He said he wished she communicated her concerns to him beforehand. How can disagreements be delt with if never communicated directly? So the CEO has to first learn of a disagreement with a fellow board member through a NY Times article?
I know it's a tempting idea, but there are very good reasons we use wires suspended in air instead of burying them.
Making a Standard (and Trying to Stick to It): Blizzard Design Philosophies [video]
Amazon does this all the time. I was in the book industry for almost a decade.

There were lots of companies that were in the rental business (of books). They had agreements with Amazon and built their business based on this agreement. Amazon completely pulled out of the rental business one day last year and all of these companies went under nearly over night.

Amazon did the same thing to me around 15 years ago. I used to sell items on Amazon (non-books) and built a fairly large business. Amazon slowly figured out how to out-compete me and had eventually cheaper items in every category. Many of these categories had no Amazon product until I started selling them.

Amazon eventually banned my seller account with no reason given. I had near 100% positive feedback and only had a couple of negative stars, which were resolved on my end by allowing the customer to keep the product and I 100% refunded. When my account was banned, I had almost $50,000 in my account that they wouldn't let me touch for almost 6 months. It put me out of business. I was luckily able to get all of my money back and didn't go into debt.

It took over a decade to finally get my seller account back. No reason given.

My take away is that no matter how tempting, never build your business based on someone else's platform. You can start out this way, but the plan to move away from it should be there from the beginning.
Thing is, prosecutors don't want to waste their time. Someone who made whole those who lost money or other assets (or at least made a credible effort to do so) gets lower priority and lower sentencing over someone who just sharts on laws.
You would lose one of the main benefits : be unaffected when the grid goes down.
My own: https://sunclock.net

Shows sunrise, sunset, and twilight times, and the phase of the moon. For me it connects clock time to the physical world.
You don't make multiple forks of a project if you want to PR multiple separate changes though (github doesn't even allow it). And, on top of that, last I heard, forks in github are actually implemented as git branches. :)
This is so lame.
"As an AI...", You're not a fucking AI, Claude. You're a LLM, you're a fancy autocorrect. You don't understand what you're talking about.
This is a veritable circus.
And the whole time no one thought to phone Satya Nadella regarding his $10 billion investment and to get his input.
Wait until Google starts to suppress ad blockers for real in a few months.
I think the talent was already there but the power of Azure servers was the critical booster. We don’t even know how much Microsoft has actually paid instead of just counting Azure credits.