I'd gone in thinking I was going to grab a 3060 TI (currently 300) or a 6750 XT (currently 400) and but now I'm not so sure.

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38378216

Friday's shocking ouster of Sam Altman, who negotiated his return as CEO of OpenAI late Tuesday night, was not the first time the shrewd Silicon Valley operator has found himself on the outs.

Four years ago, Altman's mentor, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, flew from the United Kingdom to San Francisco to give his protégé the boot, according to three people familiar with the incident, which has not been previously reported.

Graham had surprised the tech world in 2014 by tapping Altman, then in his 20s, to lead the vaunted Silicon Valley incubator. Five years later, he flew across the Atlantic with concerns that the company's president put his own interests ahead of the organization --- worries that would be echoed by OpenAI's board.

Though a revered tactician and chooser of promising start-ups, Altman had developed a reputation for favoring personal priorities over official duties and for an absenteeism that rankled his peers and some of the start-ups he was supposed to nurture, said two of the people, as well as an additional person, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe private deliberations. The largest of those priorities was his intense focus on growing OpenAI, which he saw as his life's mission, one person said.

A separate concern, unrelated to his initial firing, was that Altman personally invested in start-ups he discovered through the incubator using a fund he created with his brother Jack --- a kind of double-dipping for personal enrichment that was practiced by other founders and later limited by the organization.

"It was the school of loose management that is all about prioritizing what's in it for me," said one of the people.

Graham did not respond to a request for comment.

Though Altman's OpenAI ouster has been attributed in numerous news media reports to an ideological battle between safety concerns versus commercial interests, a person familiar with the board's proceedings said the group's vote was rooted in concerns that he was trying to avoid any checks on his power at the company --- a trait evidenced by his unwillingness to entertain any board makeup that wasn't heavily skewed in his favor.

Allegations of self-interest prompted Altman's firing on Friday and jeopardized the first days of negotiations to broker his return to OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence company responsible for ChatGPT. He announced he was returning as CEO in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday, along with a new board board comprised of allies.

Over the weekend, the four members of the original board, including three independent directors, had been willing to bring Altman back as CEO and replace themselves as long as Altman agreed to a group that promised meaningful oversight of his activities, according to the person familiar with the board, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

Though the board met with and approved of one of Altman's recommended candidates, Altman was unwilling to talk to anyone he didn't already know, said the person. By Sunday, it became clear that Altman wanted a board composed of a majority of people who would let him get his way. Another person familiar with Altman's thinking said he was willing to meet with the board's shortlist of proposed candidates, except for one person whom he declined on ethical grounds.

The new board members announced as part of Altman's reinstatement include Bret Taylor, formerly co-CEO of Salesforce and a Twitter board member, Larry Summers, former U.S. treasury secretary, along with Quora CEO and director Adam D'Angelo.

It was unclear Wednesday whether the group would be able to effectively steer the reinstated CEO's ambitions. The board pushed back on Altman's demands and ultimately settled on a few priorities: blocking Altman from a board seat, organizing a full and independent investigation of the company and ensuring that not all members of the current board resign, the person said.

OpenAI's rapidly shifting and drama-filled boardroom saga, which has played out on social media, is a first for the fast-moving tech sector. But Altman's clashes, over the course of his career, with allies, mentors and even members of a corporate structure he endorsed, are not uncommon in Silicon Valley, amid a culture that anoints wunderkinds, preaches loyalty and scorns outside oversight.

The same qualities have made Altman an unparalleled fundraiser, a consummate negotiator, a powerful leader and an unwanted enemy, winning him champions in former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. Altman's ability to inspire fealty from employees and faith in his mission was broadcast across X this weekend in a flood of heart emojis from OpenAI staffers and in threats from nearly all of the company's 770-person workforce to quit unless he was reinstated.

"Ninety plus percent of the employees of OpenAI are saying they would be willing to move to Microsoft because they feel Sam's been mistreated by a rogue board of directors," said Ron Conway, a prominent venture capitalist who became friendly with Altman shortly after he founded Loopt, a location-based social networking start-up, in 2005. "I've never seen this kind of loyalty anywhere."

But Altman's personal traits --- in particular, the perception that he was too opportunistic even for the go-getter culture of Silicon Valley --- has at times led him to alienate even some of his closest allies, say six people familiar with his time in the tech world.

Many in Silicon Valley laud Altman's strategic skill sets, including his ability to be a matchmaker among powerful people. People who know him say they have witnessed him pluck fledgling start-up founders, mentor them and make introductions for them that altered their careers. One of those people whose career Altman helped propel was Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist and board member at OpenAI --- the person who ultimately fired him.

Keith Rabois, a general partner at the venture firm Founders Fund, said that Altman was one of only three people he consulted when he decided to leave his previous job to join his current firm. He said Altman, who officiated his wedding, had an uncanny knack for giving strategic advice, for negotiating business deals, and for spotting undiscovered talent. "He could tell right away who was destined for greatness --- probably one of the five best people in all of Silicon Valley at doing that," he said.

Rabois noted that Altman, as a Stanford dropout, persuaded a major telecommunications company to do business with his start-up Loopt --- the same quality, he said, that enabled Altman to persuade Microsoft to invest in OpenAI.

"Insofar as he is polarizing, it's because he is young, successful and ambitious, and people are envious," he added.

Altman's career arc speaks to the culture of Silicon Valley, where cults of personality and personal networks often take the place of stronger management guardrails --- from Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX to Elon Musk's Twitter. Altman's practice of filling the board with allies to gain control is not just common, it's start-up gospel from Altman's longtime mentor, venture capitalist Peter Thiel.

But some of Altman's former colleagues recount issues that go beyond a founder angling for power. One person who has worked closely with Altman described a pattern of consistent and subtle manipulation that sows division between individuals.

A former OpenAI employee, machine learning researcher Geoffrey Irving, who now works at competitor Google DeepMind, wrote that he was disinclined to support Altman after working for him for two years. "1. He was always nice to me. 2. He lied to me on various occasions 3. He was deceptive, manipulative, and worse to others, including my close friends (again, only nice to me, for reasons)," Irving posted Monday on X.

Irving did not respond to The Post for a request for comment.

The board's startling, though short-lived, decision to fire Altman came as he appeared to be on an upswing. Only a year after launching ChatGPT, OpenAI was by far the hottest consumer company in Silicon Valley. At the company's recent Dev Day, Altman presented as a millennial Steve Jobs --- and announced plans for the company to become the dominant platform in generative AI. As the face of the company, and the AI boom, he was on the precipice of transitioning to a new entrant in the Big Tech pantheon.

Within some tech and AI circles, however, the knives were out for Altman. A growing group alleges that Altman has used his shrewd maneuvering to stifle smaller open-source competitors, in this case to secure the future for his company and employees.

AI executives, start-up founders and powerful venture capitalists had become aligned in recent months, concerned that Altman's negotiations with regulators were dangerous to the advancement of the field. Although Microsoft, which owns a 49 percent stake in OpenAI, has long urged caution to regulators, investors have fixated on Altman, who has captivated legislators, and embraced his summons to Capitol Hill.

Though full reasoning for Altman's initial firing is still unclear, the person familiar with the proceedings said there was no single catalyst. The board's independent directors remained united during negotiations and stood by their decision. It was hard work to find new board members they believed would be able to stand up to Altman, the person said.

"Sam lives on the edge of what other people will accept," said one of the people who had worked with him closely. "Sometimes he goes too far."

In a post on X announcing his return, Altman wrote, "i love openai, and everything i've done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together."

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) November 22, 2023

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727207458324848883

i love openai, and everything i've done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together. when i decided to join msft on sun evening, it was clear that was the best path for me and the team. with the new board and w satya's support, i'm looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with msft.

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1727207661547233721

We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners.

Tard reactions, still early and it's late at night, so not much happening.

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1812faf/sam_altman_back_as_openai_ceo

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1812fco/same_altman_is_ceo_of_openai_again

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1812f4j/sam_altman_to_return_as_ceo_of_openai_with_a_new

Can someone read this and tell me how I should feel about it

Orangecels and redditards alike just discovering how much they rely on the service.

Speculation is that this might be related to making ChatGPT voice available to all free users.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371213

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/180t5l4/andddddd_its_down

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/180to2m/so_it_begins

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/180tnnt/down_for_anyone_else

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/180w64p/is_chatgpt_down

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/180vs09/sam_please_openai_is_dead_chatgpt_and_the_api_is

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/180uykv/is_there_anything_to_be_interpreted_from_chatgpt

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/180utn9/chatgpt_and_openai_apis_are_down

https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/180tswm/breaking_gpt_down_in_the_uk

https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/180mp04/megathread_binance_ceo_cz_steps_down_as_part_of_4

This is good for Bitcoin.

I've been wanting to build a beginner home lab for a couple of months. I plan on using a type 2 hypervisor as I'm more familiar with workstation pro compared to bare metal. I want more practice with AD and also plan on setting up game servers for games like Minecraft. Don't plan on making a NAS or media server yet because I'm poor.

Got myself a 12600k and have an unused Netgear GS305E managed switch.

Any tips or resources to look at before completing my PC build?

Thinking of just using Sata ssd/nvme drives. I also have a gaming pc and laptop and wondering if I should use one of them as a terminal and /or just make one network instead of setting up the vlans.

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361259

It turns out companies that stonewall the media's security questions actually aren't good at security. Last Tuesday, Nothing Chats—a chat app from Android manufacturer "Nothing" and upstart app company Sunbird—brazenly claimed to be able to hack into Apple's iMessage protocol and give Android users blue bubbles. We immediately flagged Sunbird as a company that had been making empty promises for almost a year and seemed negligent about security. The app launched Friday anyway and was immediately ripped to shreds by the Internet for many security issues. It didn't last 24 hours; Nothing pulled the app from the Play Store Saturday morning. The Sunbird app, which Nothing Chat is just a reskin of, has also been put "on pause."

The initial sales pitch for this app—that it would log you into iMessage on Android if you handed over your Apple username and password—was a huge security red flag that meant Sunbird would need an ultra-secure infrastructure to avoid disaster. Instead, the app turned out to be about as unsecure as we expected. Here's Nothing's statement:

How bad are the security issues? Both 9to5Google and Text.com (which is owned by Automattic, the company behind WordPress) uncovered shockingly bad security practices. Not only was the app not end-to-end encrypted, as claimed numerous times by Nothing and Sunbird, but Sunbird actually logged and stored messages in plain text on both the error reporting software Sentry and in a Firebase store. Authentication tokens were sent over unencrypted HTTP so this token could be intercepted and used to read your messages.

The Text.com investigation uncovered a pile of vulnerabilities. The blog says, "When a message or an attachment is received by a user, they are unencrypted on the server side until the client sends a request acknowledging, and deleting them from the database. This means that an attacker subscribed to the Firebase Realtime DB will always be able to access the messages before or at the moment they are read by the user." Text.com was able to intercept an authentication token sent over unencrypted HTTP and subscribe to changes occurring to the database. This meant live updates of "Messages in, out, account changes, etc" not just from themselves, but other users, too.

Text.com released a proof-of-concept app that could fetch your supposedly end-to-end encrypted messages from Sunbird's servers. Batuhan Içöz, a product engineer for Text.com, also released a tool that will delete some of your data from Sunbird's servers. Içöz recommends that any Sunbird/Nothing Chat users change their Apple password now, revoke Sunbird's session, and "assume your data is already compromised."

9to5Google's Dylan Roussel investigated the app and found that, in addition to all of the public text data, "All of the documents (images, videos, audios, pdfs, vCards...) sent through Nothing Chat AND Sunbird are public." Roussel found 630,000 media files are currently stored by Sunbird, and apparently he could access some. Sunbird's app suggested that users transfer vCards—virtual business cards full of contact data—and Roussel says the personal information of 2,300-plus users is accessible. Roussel calls the whole fiasco "probably the biggest 'privacy nightmare' I've seen by a phone manufacturer in years."

Despite being the cause of this huge catastrophe, Sunbird has been bizarrely quiet during this whole mess. The app's X (formerly Twitter) page still doesn't say anything about the shutdown of Nothing Chats or Sunbird. Maybe that's for the best because some of Sunbird's early responses to the security concerns raised on Friday do not seem like they came from a competent developer. At first, the company defended its use of unencrypted HTTP for some web transactions, telling Text.com's Bagaria that "the HTTP is only used as part of the one-off initial request from the app notifying back-end of the upcoming iMessage connection iteration that will follow via a stand alone communication channel. From the start, Sunbird has been focused on security." The Text.com investigation clarified this was "a load-balanced Express server which does not implement SSL, so requests can be easily intercepted by an attacker." This usage of HTTP allowed Text.com to intercept authentication tokens.

Modern security best practices would say it is never OK to use unencrypted HTTP for any Internet transaction, and many platforms outright block plaintext HTTP transmission by default. Chrome shows a full-page warning when trying to access an HTTP page and requires the user to click through a warning message. Android disables clear text traffic by default and needs a developer to turn on a special flag for the request to go through. Projects like Let's Encrypt have not only made HTTPS usage easy and free, but it's actually easier to encrypt everything because you don't have to deal with all the security roadblocks. These are the basics of 2023 Internet usage, and seeing any developer argue against them is shocking, especially when that developer also wants to be trusted with your Apple account. It would be one thing if this was some kind of horrible mistake, but Sunbird thought this was OK!

Nothing has always seemed like an Android manufacturer that was more hype than substance, but we can now add "negligent" to that list. The company latched on to Sunbird, reskinned its app, created a promo website and YouTube video, and coordinated a media release with popular YouTubers, all without doing the slightest bit of due diligence on Sunbird's apps or its security claims. It's unbelievable that these two companies made it this far—the launch of Nothing Chats required a systemic security failure across two entire companies.

Nothing claims the app will be back once it and Sunbird work to "fix several bugs." When your whole app was built with seemingly no concern for security, I don't see how you can just patch that up in a week or two. If Nothing Chats makes it back to the Play Store, will anyone still trust it enough to enter their credentials?

"Suzie Kelly of Dallas previously told Reveal News how she spent about $400,000 on the game. She took out a home equity loan and used the money she inherited when her mother died to fund her habit."

tangerine sight discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38240212

About 650 / 770 signed at this moment. As people start waking up, more will come. All the efforts started after 1:30 AM, 500+ within two hours and all of this after 2 crazy days with very little sleep.

— Lilian Weng (@lilianweng) November 20, 2023

‘S*x life data' stolen from UK government among record number of ransomware attacks

Data on the s*x lives of up to 10,000 people was stolen from a British government department in one of the record number of ransomware attacks to have hit Westminster in the first half of this year.

It is not known which department the information was stolen from, nor why the government was holding this data, which is defined by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as “any data on a person's s*x life which does not specifically relate to orientation or health,” potentially including the use of dating apps and period trackers.

According to the most recent tranche of security incident trends data released by the ICO, there have been 10 ransomware attacks on central government in the first six months of this year — doubling the total number of successful attacks on Whitehall departments since records began in 2019.

A sharp rise in incidents can be seen across multiple sectors. As reported by Recorded Future News, data previously released by the ICO showed ransomware attacks hitting record levels in 2022, with criminals compromising data on at least 5.3 million people from over 700 organizations.

But in just the first half of 2023, ransomware criminals already compromised 667 organizations in the United Kingdom — equivalent to just over 94% of the 706 affected last year — suggesting that efforts to tackle the criminal ecosystem are not proving effective.

The government did not respond to Recorded Future News about why it had been holding s*x life data. A spokesperson for the Home Office said: “Ransomware is the most significant cyber national security threat facing the UK today. Defending the UK from ransomware attacks and reducing its impact on victims is a top priority for this government.”

The data supports the comments of Britain's security minister, Tom Tugendhat, who in September warned: “The UK is a top target for cybercriminals. Their attempts to shut down hospitals, schools and businesses have played havoc with people's lives and cost the taxpayer millions. Sadly, we've seen an increase in attacks.”

Even within just the first six months of this year, ransomware attacks have already broken the record within several critical sectors in the United Kingdom. Both central and local government reported more incidents in the first half of the year than they had in the three years prior.

Efforts to tackle the business model driving the financially motivated cyberattacks on government systems have involved dozens of countries recently signing a pledge as part of the Counter Ransomware Initiative to never pay an extortion fee in the event of an attack targeting “relevant institutions under the authority of our national government.”

At the time, Tugendhat said the pledge was “an important step forward in our efforts to disrupt highly organized and sophisticated cyber criminals, and sets a new global norm that will help disrupt their business models and deter them from targeting our country.”

Responding to Recorded Future News for this story, a Home Office spokesperson cited the pledge alongside “sanctioning of 18 Russian cyber criminals” as demonstrations of the government's response to the criminal ecosystem.

“We will continue to use all of the levers at Government's disposal to counter this heinous crime and hold these criminal actors accountable,” they added.

The data for the first half of this year that reveals a record number of incidents affecting the public sector does not cover the period in which the pledge was active. However even then it would not prevent payments by private sector organizations, who the ICO's data shows make up the bulk of the criminal ecosystem's victims.

Almost every sector included in the ICO's data looks set to suffer a record number of ransomware attacks in 2023. Some — including Finance and Credit, Utilities, and Tech and Telecoms — have already passed that mark.

The 87 attacks on the education and childcare sector resulted in 14 incidents in which data on up to 156,000 children was stolen — including one incident affecting between 1,000 and 10,000 children in which sexual orientation data was compromised by the hackers.

Since 2019, there have been 19 incidents in which children's sexual orientation data was stolen from organizations in the sector.

Speaking to Recorded Future News previously, Jamie MacColl, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) — whose work includes a research project on ransomware harms and the victim experience — said: “We've collected very little evidence that stolen or leaked personal data … is being exploited by ransomware threat actors or other cybercriminals in a systematic way.

“However, that's not to say there aren't incidents where very sensitive information on individuals has been published or sent to them to increase pressure. … During our research, we also heard of cases where ransomware threat actors had targeted schools and then sent stolen safeguarding data to parents to get them to increase pressure on the schools to pay.”

Back in 2020, ransomware incidents accounted for 20% of all cyber incidents, before rising to 28% the next year. Ransomware attacks continued to increase to 34% in 2022, and as of the first half of this year now make up almost two in every five incidents.

Establishing the true scale of ransomware incidents is a challenge for officials trying to figure out how to tackle the problem. Victims are not obliged to report attacks to law enforcement, and darknet extortion sites only provide a partial count of victims who refused to pay.

The data from the ICO is collected under Britain's data protection laws, which require companies to report breaches of personal data to the regulator under the threat of being fined up to 4% of the organization's global turnover if they fail to make a report.

No company has ever received such a fine, and the dataset necessarily only covers ransomware incidents that involve a breach of personal data, meaning an attack involving server-level encryption might not require reporting.

Earlier this year, the National Cyber Security Centre and the ICO also published a joint blog post saying they were “increasingly concerned” that ransomware victims were keeping incidents hidden from both law enforcement and from regulators.

Despite the limitations of the ICO data, experts including RUSI's MacColl have told Recorded Future News that it is “likely the most comprehensive public dataset about the frequency of ransomware attacks in the UK.”

Remarkably, the letter's signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company's chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.

— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) November 20, 2023

Orange Site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38347501

Related: OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns

OpenAI was in open revolt on Monday with 490 employees threatening to leave unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as CEO, along with cofounder and former president Greg Brockman. Altman was controversially fired by the board on Friday.

[…]

Remarkably, the letter's signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company's chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

Are the on the board the actual instigators?

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett…

— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) November 20, 2023

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we're extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

Confirmed to be a separate subsidiary entity https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726516824597258569

I'm super excited to have you join as CEO of this new group, Sam, setting a new pace for innovation. We've learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft, including GitHub, Mojang Studios, and LinkedIn, and I'm looking forward to having you do the same.

Elon peepeeriding in replies https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1726540022571299281

Wild times

Satya ftw

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The OpenAI board has hired Emmett Shear as CEO. He is the former CEO of Twitch.

My understanding is that Sam is in shock. https://t.co/GpMp9nm6qo

— Emily Chang (@emilychangtv) November 20, 2023

EDIT: TOTAL JEET VICTORY, SATYA HIRES SAM AND SAVES HIS STOCK PRICE:

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we're extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

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Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was an almost wholly unremarkable startup guy who somehow attracted the attention of Paul Graham (significant cult leader, his fund is called YC and was responsible for Reddit among other crimes) and got given a sinecure for a few years. He was appointed CEO of OpenAI before they had anything to show and hung on. Once they made a fancy chatbot this made him very important so everyone loves him.

This is how Sam is spoken of by Paul in 2009:

I was told I shouldn't mention founders of YC-funded companies in this list. But Sam Altman can't be stopped by such flimsy rules. If he wants to be on this list, he's going to be.

Honestly, Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder I refer to most when I'm advising startups. On questions of design, I ask "What would Steve do?" but on questions of strategy or ambition I ask "What would Sama do?"

What I learned from meeting Sama is that the doctrine of the elect applies to startups. It applies way less than most people think: startup investing does not consist of trying to pick winners the way you might in a horse race. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want.

At which point Sam's most significant accomplishment was dressing weird at an Apple event:

What happens to OpenAI matters because they have the leading chatbot so Microsoft and Accenture will probably use them to steal trillions of dollars of corporate money. It's extra dramatic because OpenAI was founded by Rationalists (/r/atheism if it was a s*x cult) and has a neurodivergent charter taken directly from science fiction, so the board was unironically thinking about Sam's suitability to control Skynet when they decided to fire him with thirty minutes warning for an undisclosed reason.

Emmett is kinda a loser and even more boring than Sam, they were in the same round of YC funding, but he actually successfully ran Twitch (not making it better, but extracting cash for Bezos) so there's a slim chance he does well as CEO.

10th anniversary post

Thread time!

Summary:
- Sunbird has access to every message sent and received through the app on your device.

- All of the documents (images, videos, audios, pdfs, vCards...) sent through Nothing Chat AND Sunbird are public.

- Nothing Chats is not end-to-end encrypted.

— Dylan Roussel (@evowizz) November 18, 2023

first and last time i ever wear one of these pic.twitter.com/u3iKwyWj0a

— Sam Altman (@sama) November 19, 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38337988

Hopefully at some point the liberal left will understand that dealing with specific type of immigrants that are against western liberal values isn't anti progressive, quite the opposite.

Candlelight vigil in Dolores Park calling for the return of Sam Altman as CEO pic.twitter.com/tpNzCyqXe1

— null 👨‍🌾 (@nullpointered) November 19, 2023

His parents are destroying his life. At 13 I was very different person than when I was 18. They should better spend money fixing his nose than a game nobody really needs