Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process [by the board]

“god, he’s really cost us… how much can we get back?”

which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board

not only with the board, kids

hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities

you and me both, brother

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    orange site thread which is so popular dang has had to do his standard begging so folks go easy on paully g’s surely world class Lisp code running the site (fucking imagine running a programming site on a shit single-threaded server you can’t fix)

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      You know

      I’ve load tested my fucking still-wordpress blog some years back, and even then I managed to get something like 1600~1700rps out of it without at all trying hard (read: “I think I changed the fpm pool at some point”)

      I am of course not surprised their software is the way it is (subversion commits are dangerous to a man of paulie g’s stature, of course), but it is hilariously recursively poignant: the very site where you may find a number of Weekend Code This-ers who - because of the mere trick of advancement in computing technology - may actually be right (for writing a new orange site)……just couldn’t

      Who said satire is dead?!

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      the thread is too gigantic to do pull quotes, but the number of poor delusional fucks who’ve decided this must be due to Altman’s business genius (somehow), the birth of an AGI that’s blackmailing the board, that this is just how executive boards normally act, or are just generally arguing that these severely out of touch rich folk must all be acting reasonably and legally in spite of all experience to the contrary is kind of astounding

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      What? This can’t be real? My custom code I cooked last year for a webservice in python is able to run multiprocess by now. How do there people still have high-paying jobs and I am stuggling monthly? goddamn!

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        How do there people still have high-paying jobs and I am struggling monthly?

        Because people get paid not for technical output but for popularity of the products they create (And if you don’t own the company then you don’t even get that). bla bla bla capitalism bla bla markets bla bla

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        I can’t imagine how bad Arc (the fucking ugly Lisp variant paully g wrote hacker news in) must be if it’s a Racket DSL that can’t use any of Racket’s many threading abstractions

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    this is brutal. even CEOs fired for sexual harassment don’t get a firing this brutal. WTF did Sam do to rate this? other shoe is approaching from orbit

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      my hand reaching for the SICKOS meme like a gunslinger reaching for a revolver during a showdown

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      “not consistently candid in his communications” is also Altman’s entire job description.

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      holy cannoli I wasn’t even thinking about embezzlement. If OpenAI lost all their money on a dodgy investment I might start to believe in a benevolent creator.

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      My prediction, he was fired because he doesn’t take the risk of AGI seriously enough. The next CEO is going to end up here a lot. Because that would be the silliest option, them ignoring the stories from his sister, any embezzlement or harassment but full on going ‘he picked stopping the torture instead of stopping the dust specks’

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          If the end result of appointing an hpmor cultist is that they slow the hype cycle I guess it will be good but I suspect this will end with the rest of us crying “a plague o’ both their houses!”, worms’ meat in the Verona streets, before the AGI lovers and the AGI panickers hilariously die in the hypothetical crypt, leaving the tech industry burning behind them like the backdrop of a Shakespearean gang war.

          That metaphor got away from me but in my defense I have a fever.

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            Considering both sides don’t care about consent (assuming the Altman allegations are real, and even if they aren’t see the GPT training data (different type of consent but still)) it will not be good.

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    (okay I admit this is a bit of a lazy sneer but I saw it in passing and it wasn’t here yet, and being far past my spoon budget for the day I did a partial)

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    wow this is an awfully unhealthy signal for a supposedly extremely successful company to be broadcasting, though I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked that Altman is such a shithead that not even OpenAI can tolerate him for long

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      What (from a heavily downvoted comment there):

      “Is Helen Toner CIA or just the kind of person who talks to Stare Department employees in secure locations several times a quarter? She has a degree in CIA from CIA university and works at an institute that is have in glove with USFEDGOV.”

      New conspiracy theory, the CIA forced Altman out.

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    My guess is the board found out they aren’t allowed into his doomsday bunker and decided they couldn’t be fwiends anymore