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3,803karma·1,305submissions·September 15, 2021
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It's still a conflict of interest. One that they should avoid. Microsoft COULD appoint someone who they like and shares their values, that is not a MSFT employee. That would be a preferred approa…
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This is where OpenAI/MSFT loses. Chaos in OpenAI/MSFT will lead to Anthropic overtaking them. They've already been ahead in many areas, dead locked in others, but with OpenAI facing a c…
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Of course he does, that would benefit him and MSFT shareholders, not OpenAI's mission or charter
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Do you know where that's documented? All reporting seems to indicate otherwise and all the digging i did confirmed he was CEO of the non-profit too. For example: https://techcrunch.co…
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Leadership without talented employees can break a company. That's why they are paid so...
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Using your celebrity status as CEO of a non-profit to raise money for multiple related for-profits does seem like you may be more dedicated to personal financial motivations than that of the non-profi…
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What adversity and setbacks did Sam personally overcome?
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And of course he gives credit to the CEO and not the 400 people under him who actually built the thing, nor the other 10 people who actually founded the company. Nor those who gave initial funding. Fr…
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If you reply on a Slack thread, then every reply on that thread pings you
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I was thinking of this in bed last night. I could focus more using our terrible messaging system prior to Slack. And there was less banter, pessimism, pile ons, etc that now show up in threads. Somet…
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Agreed, I'd add to give your manager your phone number for emergencies and tell them you've allow-listed their number to ring when others can't. Then get back to flow
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>Critically, a community college will NOT cover beyond the first 2-4 semesters of a university BS degree. Maybe commonly, but that's NOT true universally (given your capital letters to indicat…
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Ha, HN is amazing. the other day there was a thread about people not wanting to be micromanaged by managers on here and another about how managers need to carefully choose the words for "you need…
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IIRC, incompleteness theorems applies to arithmetic not geometry, the difference being subtle right?
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Good to know thanks
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Ok, how relevant is Tarski's though? Seems academically, they are weak > We partially prove the theorem of [7] that Tarski’s (extremely weak!) plane geometry axioms imply Hilbert’s axioms. ht…
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