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1. gordon+LA1[view] [source] 2023-11-18 05:28:57
>>davidb+(OP)
From NYT article [1] and Greg's tweet [2]

"In a post to X Friday evening, Mr. Brockman said that he and Mr. Altman had no warning of the board’s decision. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” he wrote. “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.”

Mr. Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the board at noon on Friday and was immediately fired, according to Mr. Brockman. Mr. Brockman said that even though he was the chairman of the board, he was not part of this board meeting.

He said that the board informed him of Mr. Altman’s ouster minutes later. Around the same time, the board published a blog post."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/technology/openai-sam-alt...

[2] https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594

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2. cedws+xC1[view] [source] 2023-11-18 05:44:26
>>gordon+LA1
So they didn't even give Altman a chance to defend himself for supposedly lying (inconsistent candour as they put it.) Wow.
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3. somena+HF1[view] [source] 2023-11-18 06:09:32
>>cedws+xC1
Another source [1] claims: "A knowledgeable source said the board struggle reflected a cultural clash at the organization, with Altman and Brockman focused on commercialization and Sutskever and his allies focused on the original non-profit mission of OpenAI."

[1] - https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/17/openai-sam-altman-firing-b...

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4. krzyk+oO1[view] [source] 2023-11-18 07:35:08
>>somena+HF1
So it looks like they did something good.
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5. konsch+x42[view] [source] 2023-11-18 10:01:12
>>krzyk+oO1
If you want AI to fail, then yes.
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6. uoaei+tb2[view] [source] 2023-11-18 10:58:30
>>konsch+x42
Melodrama has no place in the AI utopia.
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7. mcpack+ri2[view] [source] 2023-11-18 11:51:16
>>uoaei+tb2
The only thing utopian ideologies are good for is finding 'justifications' for murder. The "AI utopia" will be no different. De-radicalize yourself while you still can.
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8. concor+EF2[view] [source] 2023-11-18 14:20:01
>>mcpack+ri2
> The only thing utopian ideologies are good for is finding 'justifications' for murder.

This seems more like your personal definition of "utopian ideology" than an actual observation of the world we live in.

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9. ddj231+VX2[view] [source] 2023-11-18 16:08:00
>>concor+EF2
It seems like an observation to me. Let’s take the Marxist utopian ideology. It led to 40 - 60 million dead in the Soviet Union (Gulag Archipelago is an eye opening read). And 40 - 80 million dead in Mao Zedong’s China. It’s hard to even wrap my mind around that amount of people dead.

Then a smaller example in Matthia’s cult in the “Kingdom Of Matthias” book. Started around the same time as Mormonism. Which led to a murder. Or the Peoples Temple cult with 909 dead in mass suicide. The communal aspects of these give away their “utopian ideology”

I’d like to hear where you’re coming from. I have a Christian worldview, so when I look at these movements it seems they have an obvious presupposition on human nature (that with the right systems in place people will act perfectly — so it is the systems that are flawed not the people themselves). Utopia is inherently religious, and I’d say it is the human desire to have heaven on earth — but gone about in the wrong ways. Because humans are flawed, no economic system or communal living in itself can bring about the utopian ideal.

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10. ethbr1+273[view] [source] 2023-11-18 16:57:23
>>ddj231+VX2
Kibbutz?
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