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There is one OpenAI board member who has an art degree and is part of some kind of cultish "singularity" spiritual/neo-religious thing. That individual has also never had a real job and is on the board of several other non-profits.

What the hell were they thinking? Just because you are a non-profit doesn't mean you should imitate other non-profits and put crazies on the board.

>>0xDEF+(OP)
The only explanation I can find is that their importance went through a step function at the launch of ChatGPT, and before that it didn't matter who was a board member.

>>0xDEF+(OP)
Smells like XYZ agencies, or some white gloves.

>>markus+R1
No, all native Californians are like this (this just replaces hippie Buddhism with hippie computer worship) and the singularity stuff is the reason OpenAI was founded in the first place. And the reason Elon is mad at them, because they pivoted from it.

>>astran+G2
Thanks, love the insight.

>>0xDEF+(OP)
Non profits too often can be uniquely bureaucratic, undertrained in governance and efficiency, and more tied to deeper personal interpretations or none at all and being open to bouts of oversimplification.

>>astran+G2
Hippie computer worship seems like indirectly self worship as the creators.

>>0xDEF+(OP)
And their old CEO even runs a cryptocurrency scam. Truly an interesting bunch of people.