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I'm responding to a post by a self hating engineer that seems to think that this specific debacle was caused by engineers. No, it was caused by non engineers. And while yes, I do have disdain for people that spends thousands to study skills that contribute nothing to their fellow man or woman, I don't think scientist or artist are those things. (Mba and ethicist definitely are mastibatory self important bullshit)

The real reason I disdain the majority of the board of openai is that there are clearly 3 people on the board that have accomplished nothing and are clear trust fund babies.

>>brigad+(OP)
I suspect the root-commenter was speaking about Ilya S, and it's a bit quibbling to classify him as "scientist" vs "engineer." He clearly crosses the line between both.

But yes, the comment was a bit unhinged.

Don't really see the difference between an MBA and whatever it is that Altman does, though, other than credentials.

Finally, that you think that ethicist (or the study of ethics) is masturbatory, especially in the context of an organization that has as its explicit mission to hoist AGI onto the world -- tells me quite a bit about your own... ethics.

World could do with a lot more ethicists and a lot less MBAs.

>>brigad+(OP)
Thinking about life in such narrow group identities is a failure of imagination in my view.

>>kitsun+U
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Nuance is a low value edge case.