Comment by chihuahua

Comment by chihuahua a day ago

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He is a pretty interesting case. According to the book "Empire of AI" about OpenAI, he lies constantly, even about things that are too trivial to matter. So it may be part of some compulsive behavior.

And when two people want different things from him, he "resolves" the conflict by agreeing with each of them separately, and then each assumes they got what they wanted, until they talk to the other person and find out that nothing was resolved.

Really not a person who is qualified to run a company, except the constant lying is good for fundraising and PR.

kreelman a day ago

He was once a big pin in Y Combinator (I think kind of ran it?)... Paul Graham thought he was great for YC.

Interesting that he's got as far as he has with this issue. I don't think you can run a company effectively if you don't deal in truth.

Some of his videos have seemed quite bizarre as well, quite sarcastic about concerns people have about AI in general.

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  • owebmaster a day ago

    > He was once a big pin in Y Combinator (I think kind of ran it?)... Paul Graham thought he was great for YC.

    And today it seems everyone will at YC hate him but pretend not

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dandelionv1bes a day ago

Saw Empire of AI in a bookshop recently but held off buying as wasn’t sure if it was going to be surface level. You’d recommend?

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  • thereitgoes456 a day ago

    Understandable worry, but it's not surface-level at all. Karen Hao is a great journalist. Highly recommend.

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  • chihuahua 20 hours ago

    It's sort of two books combined into one: The first one is the story of OpenAI from the beginning, with all the drama explained with quotes from inside sources. This part was informative and interesting. It includes some details about Elon being convinced that Demis Hassabis is going to create an evil super-intelligence that will destroy humanity, because he once worked on a video game with an evil supervillain. I guess his brain was cooked much earlier than we thought.

    The second one is a bunch of SJW hand-wringing about things that are only tangentially related, like indigenous Bolivians being oppressed by Spanish Conquistadors centuries ago. That part I don't care for as much.

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drtgh a day ago

Not a case, society call them sociopaths. Witch includes power struggle, manipulation and physiological abuse of the people around them.

Example, Sam Altman and OpenAI hoarding 40% of the RAM supply as unprocessed wafers stored in warehouses bought with magical bubble investors money in GPUs that don't exist yet and that they will not be able to install because there's not enough electricity to feed such botched tech, in data centers that are still to be built, with intention to punch the competence supply, and all the people of the planet in the process along two years (at least).

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nixass a day ago

> Really not a person who is qualified to run a company, except the constant lying is good for fundraising and PR.

For a brief moment I thought you were talking about Elon there

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irishcoffee a day ago

He is a sociopath. It's ok to say it.

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  • ifwinterco a day ago

    Yep the various -path adjectives get overused but in this case he's the real deal, something is really really off about him.

    You can see it when he talks, he's clearly trying (very unconvincingly) to emulate normal human emotions like concern and empathy. He doesn't feel them.

    People like that are capable of great evil and there's a part of our lizard brains that can sense it

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peyton a day ago

Sounds like when people are politicking he just takes a “whatever” approach haha. That seems reasonable.

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