skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well okay, yes, if your process is that broken then you have to make do. In shops with a vaguely reasonable path to merge a PR, time for human reviewers to sign off dominates and smaller changes are the expedient path to get changes merged quickly.
Few ways to force OpenAI governance changes, legal experts say
It's generally meant that material scarcity becomes secondary to social wellbeing. Ie, material needs are so easy to take care of that the dynamics of social interaction undergo a fundamental shift, as they currently are strongly tied to material conditions.
> A board member cannot sabotage their own company.

Criticism (especially valid criticism) is not sabotage, and in any case the board's responsibility is to advance the charter, not to support the (non-profit) company regardless of what it's doing.
There's a section of Gustav Hasford's 'The Short Timers' that describes this well. Two soldiers have recently returned from the front lines and hitch a lift to a base, or PX, or something of that nature. The gate guard - some fat fuck who's clearly never seen the enemy face to face - won't let them in because they're Marines and Marine day is Tuesday, or something of that nature, so our man just cocks his rifle and sticks it in the guy's stomach, finger on the trigger, and looks the guy in the eye.

It's a very well written book.

I don't know really whether I should recommend war stories to a guy who's been to war but if you do enjoy reading that sort of stuff, both of his novels (The Short Timers - which turned into Full Metal Jacket - and the sequel 'The Phantom Blooper' are excellent.)
MBS? Seriously? How badly do you need the money.. good luck not getting hacked to pieces when your AI insults his holiness
A lot of people in tech say that executives are excessively diplomatic and do not speak their truth. But this is what happens when they do too much, too ardently, too often. This is why diplomacy and tact is so important in these roles.

Things do not go well if everyone keeps poking each other with sticks and cannot let their own frame of reference go for the sake of the bigger picture.

Ultimately, I don’t think Altman doesn’t believe ethics and safety is important. And I don’t think Toner fails to realize that OpenAI is only in a place to dictate what AI will be due to its commercial principles. And they probably both agree that there is a conflict there. But what tactful leadership would have done is found a solution behind closed doors. Yet from their communication, it doesn’t even look like they defined the problem statement — everyone offers a different idea of the problem that they had to face together. It looks more like it was more like immature people shouting past each other for a year (not saying it was that, but it looks that way).

Moral of the story: tact, grace, and diplomacy are important. So is speaking one’s truth, but there is a tactful time, place, and manner. And also, no matter how brilliant someone is, if they can’t develop these traits, they end up rocking the boat a lot.
Do you think Sam is more aligned to OpenAI non-profit charter than Helen?
From her perspective, she does have a good reason. And in what way was publishing the paper "overruling" the employees of the for-profit company? The board of the non-profit is beholden to their charter first and foremost
Yes, those responsibilities are to advance the charter of the organization, which notably is totally compatible with publishing articles that contain mild criticism of the organization's behavior.
My first thought was that it's not defensible because it's a desired outcome and this route avoids either negative press or another consequence of him leaving of his own volition.
> The board has all my respect for standing up to the capitalists of Altman, the VCs, Microsoft. Big feathers to ruffle - even though the execution was misjudged, turns out most of its employees are pretty capitalistic too

Exactly. This is a battle between altruistic principles and some of the most heavyweight greedy money in the world. The board messed up the execution, but so did OpenAI leadership when they offered million dollar pay packages to people in a non-profit that is supposed to be guided by selfless principles.
> Practically all of the most relevant experts in this domain, leadership in OpenAI, think it's right around the corner.

Oh, ok. That makes it alright then. So, let's see those minutes of that meeting where this was decided with all of the pomp and gravitas required rather than that it was a petty act of revenge or to see who could oust who first from OpenAI. Because that's what it looks like to me based on what is now visible.

> Yes it would, but it wouldn't be as bad as everyone dying.

Not much is as bad as everyone dying. But for now that hasn't happened. It also seems a bit like a larger version of the 'think of the children' argument, you can justify any action with that reason.

> No, "who controls it" is a problem best tackled after "will it kill everyone." You say "That doesn't really matter," but again, Sam Altman himself thinks "Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity."

Then why the fuck is he trying to bring it into the world? Seriously, they should spend all of their talent on trying to sabotage those efforts then, infiltrate research groups and set up a massive campaign to divert resources away from the development of AGI. Instead they are trying as hard as they can to create the genie in the sure conviction that they can keep it bottled up.

It's delusional on so many fronts at once that it is isn't even funny, their position is so horribly inconsistent that you have to wonder if they're all right in the head.

EA is becoming a massive red flag in my book.

They seem to miss the fact that every weapon that humanity has so far produced has been used, and that those that haven't been used hang over us like shadows, and have been doing that for the last 70 some years. Those are weapons whose use you will notice. AGI is a weapon whose use you will not notice until you realize you are living in a stable dictatorship. The chances of that happening are far larger than the chances of everybody dying.
Why? It should be obvious: power. But that also means that it doesn't matter what they say, because they'll lie to conceal that this was really a power play, driven by petty looking rivalries.

(Was) a hundred billion dollar rocketship, pioneering the future. That this is only the first such palace intrigue we've seen is surprising.

The root of the problem seems to lie in the challenges of growth and the accompanying pressures. The issues we've observed in the past week are likely tied to weak or ineffective leadership. This isn't just about leading developers or the technical team; it's about leadership at every level within the company. If leadership were strong and clear, I doubt these issues would have arisen.

It's like whenever there is a power vacuum, all the possible contenders compete and there's chaos. The existence of chaos suggests at least that there's a power vacuum at the top. Similar to when big leaders throughout history died, their children/lieutenants then fought and caused civil wars (e.g Mongols).

But while a leader is strong, there can be stability. Take, for instance, Facebook during its initial growth phase. Despite facing intense pressure from various quarters, it never descended into chaos or disarray. This stability could be attributed to a robust board, or perhaps to Mark Zuckerberg's leadership effectiveness. Whatever your opinion of him, his leadership across all levels of the company and on the board seemed to prevent competing interests from creating chaos.

This situation also underscores the importance of selecting the right people for the board. It's not just about finding smart individuals who look good on paper or focusing on trendy topics like AI ethics. The board members need a deep understanding of startups and business. Maybe the current board's inexperience and theoretical approach are issues. It could be that they are too young or resemble a vanity board more than an effective one.

However, we can't place all the blame on the board. Strong, clear, and effective leadership at the top is crucial. Sam Altman might excel in many areas, but perhaps what's needed is a leader like Zuckerberg at Facebook (and perhaps a similar leadership structure, too), or current-era Musk, someone who could have possibly prevented these problems.
If you view some races as generally "less useful" than others, most people would consider that racist regardless of whether you think they should enjoy the same rights.
Okay, let's stipulate that Sam was maneuvering to get full board control. Then the independent directors were probably worried that -- sooner or later -- Sam would succeed. With Sam fully in charge the non-profit goals would be completely secondary to the commercial goals. This was unacceptable to the independent directors and Ilya and so they ousted Sam before he could oust them?

That's a clear motive. Sam and the independent directors were each angling to get rid of the other. The independent directors got to a majority before Sam did. This at least explains why they fired Sam in such a haphazard way. They had to strike immediately before one of the board members got cold feet.
As long as we are sharing Chats from GPT, I am also having chats about AI risks.

I asked it to look into history for patterns regarding 4 different scenarios:

1. Carefully controlled technology -> Increased Risk

2. Haphazard release of technology -> Decreased Risk

3. Carefully controlled technology -> Decreased Risk

4. Haphazard release of technology -> Increased Risk

Some interesting points... but I thought it left out the careful control of literacy.

https://chat.openai.com/share/5516a6f8-c15f-449b-803b-69d68b...
>In other words, it seems like he setup the non-profit OpenAI as a sort of Trojan horse to launch himself to the top of the AI players.

Given that Altman apparently idolized Steve Jobs as a kid, this idea really doesn't feel that far-fetched.
I got my kid one for his pi, he liked it. Served him well. But they often seem to have issues with missing symbols needed for basic programming and dysfunctional keys. Also weird key layouts etc.

Anyway they're fingers can handle normal keyboards super quickly, we could have given him a standard keyboard when he was 2 if there had been a reason.
This has been argued here already and dissected thoroughly.

It's basically restating 'her role is to cheerlead' but with more sophisticated wording.

You haven't made an argument, you've just used longer words to restate your (incorrect) opinion.

Also I never said they had an 'advisory' board. Board members ar either executive or non-executive members. If they're nonexec then their role is to advise the executive members. They're generally fairly independent and many nonexecutive board members serve on the boards of multiple companies, sometimes including ones that are nominally in competition with each other.
I was under the impression that a lot of off-brand USB devices didn't use the USB logo specifically to get around certification requirements. Basically, they just aren't advertising adherence to a standard. No idea about NVMe or BT.
I picked them for their difference in relative size and strength, not to suggest that Idefix would ever accept a leash or because there are other dogs that lead their masters around.
Bard:

> simply type the name of the product that you want to access after the "@gmail" prompt. For example, to access Google Docs, you would type "@gmail docs".

Me

> @gmail docs

Bard

> Unfortunately, Bard Extensions is still under development and currently doesn't support full integration with Google Docs through Gmail.
define justice...

Justice, in its broadest sense, is the concept that individuals are to be treated in a manner that is equitable and fair. A society in which justice has been achieved would be one in which individuals receive what they "deserve"

So, what do they deserve? It's up to a panel of peers to determine. Peers, mind you, that are representative of the society you live in.

So in a sense, public outcry and court of public opinion can sway personal opinions on what is just and fair and determine what people deserve. I find the entire system malleable and ripe for corruption.
>Total US retirement assets were $36.7 trillion as of June 30, 2023, up 3.1 percent from March 31, 2023. Retirement assets accounted for 31 percent of all household financial assets in the United States at the end of June 2023.
> Conflicts of interest suck. Experienced board members avoid them or deal with them.

Agreed. It seems remarkable that she dealt with her conflict of interest so thoroughly that she published an article that was mildly critical of the organization. I do not think her duty was to let Sam Altman seize power by firing her from the board on a flimsy pretext, though.
>This forces tech companies to create a different experience for Quebec vs rest of Canada.

That sort of seems like a needless barrier for companies. What is the precedent for that? It almost seems like those in Quebec have established some sort of "We're different, so everyone must suffer" constitutional amendment. But then again, I have no clue.
P.S.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22python+app+calculate+road...

If you leave off the quotes (which were present in the comment I responded to) then of course you will get millions of irrelevant hits. Somewhere in that chaff there is some Python code that alleges to have something to with road trips, though it's not always clear what. If I give the same prompt to ChatGPT I get a nicely formatted box with a program that uses the Google Maps Distance Matrix API
to calculate distance and duration, without a bunch of junk to wade through. (I haven't tried it so it could be a complete hallucination.)
I have some indication that she hasn't thought it through, that all started last Friday. If she has thought it through I hope that she can show her homework because it kind of matters.
It's absolutely amazing with retarded services like MS Teams that don't allow you to be in two tenants at the same time. Same with their admin portals.

Funny how MS is pushing edge and Firefox is the best option to manage their services.
You signed a contract, didn't you?

What does the contract say about this?
I was there last year and yes, smoking is still allowed in nearly every restaurant. It was lovely.
The board’s fiduciary duties are to the charter of the nonprofit. They have no duty to protect the for-profit-OpenAI’s profits, reputation, or anything else.
That’s what game genie was for cartridges too. You plug the game into the game genie into the console
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...
See the following study in Nature and scroll down to “Epigenetic reprogramming by ELS: the current landscape” -it gives an overview with citations and links included:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02076-9

Telomere Effect also goes into epigenetic changes but isn’t solely focused on stress
That's statistically speaking not very well supported. The most common element of those that are past a certain level of wealth is that they want more wealth, more power or both.
I lived in the Balkans for 30 years. Serbs have great culture and kafanas, but they are extremely political. It’s so hard to hold a normal conversation without them mentioning Russia, Yugoslavia, Kosovo/Albanians, NATO la-la-la. Especially in kafanas, I can confidently say that a majority of them still live in the past and can’t move on and it’s really sad.
British Library: Employee data leaked in cyber attack
I'm getting an error that my phone number isn't supported. I live in Canada. Anyone else having this problem?
Regarding survey's I don't necessarily disagree with surveys (although they can be flawed), but find that mechanical turk seems to give the worst way of doing a survey. It rewards going through the survey as quick as possible and I would also argue attracts people who optimise toward time (although I don't have hard evidence), not necessarily honesty (an interesting ethics question in itself).

Regarding your thoughts on the car study I broadly agree it is not a very good proxy for wealth (also areas with many company cars likely skew results as well). However I do think that it's trying to independently verify peoples self-evaluation using similar experiments what gives us much better insights and there were a number of other studies with similar results.

Confirmation bias is always a danger and the paper that was described in the article which could not reproduce the correlation between car cost and behavior tried to follow best practices to minimise it, so probably should be given more weight. I actually wondered if there is a difference also according to culture, i.e. Piff's results were obtained in the US, while the other article was in the Netherlands.
I guess I am much less familiar with Moldbug's stated views than you, so I'm happy to concede that point.

Anyway, I think the HBD/NRx relationship is peripheral to the discussion of the Metz article -- I just framed it that way because that's the context of Scott's emails (certainly he think's they're at least associated!). The discourse around the Metz article was that it framed Scott as holding racist views, not specifically NRx views.

If I had mentioned Steve Sailer instead of NRx, would you agree that Scott was more sympathetic to those views than he publicly let on?
I agree. If you try to make a fancy design, you may draw more eyes to it, which defeats the purpose. If you really want to look at that hideous example from Hungary, you are weird. There are techniques, such as putting them halfway down, rather than on top of a ridge, to help them blend into the surroundings. But it's unlikely that you'll make them beautiful. Try, but not too hard maybe.
It's funny that they mention, “Our mission is to build a public transport system that is as easy and as convenient as on land,” because Stokcholm’s public transport system does include (in Summer) similar boats that are, for passengers, just as easy and convenient.

I guess the current diesel engines are not as “easy and convenient” as the electric metropolitan rail, while this would likely be…

It is a fantastic project and one that every city should buy.
P.S I'm not the one lying here. Not only are there lies, strawmen, and all sorts of projection, but my substantive points are ignored.

"some backwards compatibility idiocy that seemed like it made sense at some point"

Is obviously attack on their judgment.

"a compelling reason to fuck over the future in favor of optimisation now"

Talk about passive-aggressive! Of course the person who wrote this does not think that there was any such "compelling reason", which leaves us with the extremely hostile accusation.

And as I've noted, the arguments that these decisions were idiotic or effed over the future are simply incorrect.
Nitpick: poring

:)
One of the very few things I like about Alexa is that it has an option for being more forgiving about stammers and pauses. It actually works pretty well.

Maybe the same will make it into ChatGPT at some point.
honestly I think a 3yo is capable of learning bash before python if you put it in between them and paw patrol (or whatever they're into, for mine its beastie boys music videos currently... sigh)
Thank goodness the law is interpreted by judges and not engineers.

No, I'm not joking.
I really don't understand why it has taken health research this long to focus on the digestive system. Obviously, it's all hindsight - but the system that controls processing the entirety of our nutrients seems like it would clearly be a lot more important than it has been treated.
I've had success with it. The integration with other google services could be a killer feature, but I think it needs some more polish and control. For example, right now it can't add an event to your calendar. I'd think it could at least generate a link to create one. It sort of seems like they're being overly cautious when compared to the way ChatGPT was launched.
I think you’re lying to yourself if you really think vinyl and books are a fair equivalence to the TikToks and Snapchats of today.
I think you missed the part where Sam apparently tried to get Toner off the board first, which would probably be sufficient justification for removing him as CEO (if the story is as described, i.e. it was on a silly pretext).
I think they make it quite clear what they mean by statement. If they wish to accept donations they can freely do so but they did not. It's an investment with all the current expectations. Any investor based on that statement should expect either a return or the end of capitalism itself.
If you believe that differences in behaviours between groups of humans are significantly explained by genetic variation (which is supported by the evidence to some degree), and that those genetic variations align along racial lines (which really isn't), what do you think that entails on social outcomes between racial groups?
Ugh so I couldn't even run my own filters anymore.

I use a lot of custom filters to reduce many sites I visit to a list of headlines similar to HN. Too many of them have attention grabbing crap like huge pictures.

But I'm on Firefox so this isn't a worry for me luckily.
Or idk a broomstick that's stood up just right so when it's windy outside it falls over alerting you to the wind and recommending you close your windows
Would be worth then changing the title to “The Best City For Techies for me” then. The way it is now implies you intended to be objective about it.
I love it.

"provide me a rendered html page with the most relevant links and descriptions for a given topic, completely free of advertising"
She went a bit further than that.
It’s not different, the two are tied. See my comments above, including my response to you related to epigenetic changes from stress.

The person you are responding to likely has notable epigenetic modifications that have lasted way past the initial negative environmental stimuli (in proportion to the trauma). It’s not a hopeless situation, there is literature on how to reverse and mitigate that, but it’s important to be aware of.
nah, it'll be selectively used against companies that piss the right the people off
Can someone in the know explain how Bard could be as bad as it is, considering Google has been investing in AI for as long as they have? I thought they were earlier than most to begin serious work on AI? How could Bard suck this bad?
But I bet if a Greenpeace-like-organization board member would write a paper how a different environmental group is greener, they would be praised.
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Ironically enough, the people who followed Weiner’s work were persecuted in the USSR.
I can't find it published yet, but note that these resolutions are common, extremely short, and very standardized.

See this compilation of compulsory process resolutions:
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/press-releases/...
Probably because political decisions over the last 10 years have made German costs of manufacturing too high. When your costs get too high, you have to put your prices up. When you put your prices up, your sales drop because those prices tend to price you out of the market. When your sales drop, your profits drop. That means the government doesn't raise as much in taxes, and so cannot subsidise all those things they used to subsidise. That's called 'freezing spending', because you don't have the money to spend on those things any more. That also means your budget can't be balanced, and so you have a 'budget crisis'.

QED
A comparison to another nonprofit would make more sense. A board member of the Komen Foundation being reprimanded for pointing out that other nonprofits are far more effective at helping cancer research would be a better comparison.
The power behind Open AI board of directors
This was actually the case with me. Constantly told children should be seen and not heard, don't speak unless spoken to, all manner of things like that. My wings were clipped good.