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>>davidb+(OP)
Saying this is sudden would be an understatement.

Sam Altman spoke at an APEC panel on behalf of OpenAI literally yesterday: https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1725318771454456208

>>minima+B
It’s hard to imagine a more last minute move on the boards part here. Been in tech exec leadership for a long time and this feels like they’re accusing him of cannibalism (in corporate PR speak). No way this didn’t get decided on in the middle of last night. Whatever he did is big and dangerous, or they’re trying to pin it on him.

>>moshun+Db
Agreed. It had to have been something disastrous. No way Sam walked away from OpenAI when the AI revolution is just starting.

>>lvl102+Yd
Altman's sister's allegations seemed pretty disastrous.

>>faitsw+Pk
and what pray-tell are those?

>>red-ir+Vm
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...

Sexual abuse by Sam when she was four years old and he 13.

Develops PCOS (which has seen some association with child abuse) and childhood OCD and depression. Thrown out. Begins working as sex worker for survival. It's a real grim story.

>>jug+Lo
> "{I experienced} Shadowbanning 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"

So either sama is hacking "into her wifi" (?), hacking into her accounts, and pulling strings at unrelated companies to get her shadowbanned from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc (is that even a thing?)... or Occam's Razor applies and he didn't.

>>resolu+Xr
You can add suppressing on hn to the list:

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>>mylidl+bz
Per dang, that's a consequence of user flags: <>>38311933 >

This is hardly unexpected for profound allegations without strong supporting evidence, and yes, I'm well aware that presentation of any evidence would be difficult to validate on HN, such that a third-party assessment (as in a court of law, for example) would typically be required.

I'm not claiming that HN has a stellar record of dealing with unpleasant news or inconvenient facts. But that any such bias originates from YC rather than reader responses and general algorithmic treatments (e.g., "flamewar detector") is itself strongly unsupported, and your characterisation above really is beyond the pale.