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People do vary even if none are perfect. Demis Hassabis has a pretty good reputation amongst the AI leaders. Altman seems unusually shifty.

Googling a little, he was a dem:

>Having reportedly voted for Joe Biden in 2020, Musk even voiced his pro-Dems alignment in 2022 when he posted on X, formerly Twitter, that he had “strongly supported Obama for President” in 2007.

I think he turned after Tesla was snubbed at Biden's 2021 EV summit because although it was the US's largest EV maker it wasn't unionized and Biden was in with the unions.

I can sort of see that being annoying.


Seems fairly immortal already, the book. It's the author who's having problems.

Though if she was complicit she's probably in a good position to expose it now things have changed.

The public thing was

> Altman’s ouster, which is effective immediately, follows “a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the board said in a blog post Friday.

I'm not sure there's much info beyond that?


Maybe people on the internet like to slag off anyone rich and famous? The only one there seems evidence for is him being less than candid with the board.

Only evidence? What evidence do you think normally is present from a sexual assault of a child years before? I would suggest that his support of an adjudicated rapist and accused pedophile who is covering up for a child sex trafficking ring operated by another pedophile that Altman had a known documented relationship with...is a pretty good indicator of his guilt. Altmans lawyers argued this week that because the alleged abuse happened so long ago the case should be thrown out. They didn't say because Altman is innocent,they said bc it occurred years ago. Annie Altman is asking for $75,000...that's it. You can read text messages from Sam Altman refusing to give her $45 for therapy bills. Altman is described as former associates as a sociopath who is devoid of any morals and lies to attain his desires. He is suspected of having a former business partner killed. I don't know how anyone can think his sister would make this up. She was a pre-med student at Tufts. Anybody who suffers sexual abuse from a sibling is going to have ptsd and other emotional & mental health issues.

Altman family has said Annie Altman has mental health challenges, ie. probably a bit nuts, and I don't think supporting Trump proves you are a pedophile.

"Cognitive surrender" seem a bit of a loaded term for trusting the AI.

If you stop doing long division by hand and use a calculator is that cognitive surrender or just normal life? And if the calculator has the wrong answer and you accept that is that that surprising?

In terms of the danger of trusting stuff without double checking there seem more problems with Fox News etc. than AI which tends to be fairly neutral if sometimes wrong.


"And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much while for the most part they know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom they will be a burden to their fellows."

- Plato

I think no reasonable person would be against literacy in the modern world and similarly we will continue to adapt to new technology and be the better for it.


>If you stop doing long division by hand and use a calculator is that cognitive surrender

yes, you have surrendered to the assumption that the calculator can calculate quicker and more accurately than you can, almost invariably correct.

Now people are surrendering to the assumption that the AI knows more and can reason from what it knows better than they can.


I was trying to figure the country - I think north Africa upside down and Spain https://earth.google.com/web/@3.88879526,-24.75819914,62.068...

It's one of those stark reminders that there's no such thing as up or down in space, and something that disabuses me of the notion that I can truly comprehend "the enemy gate is down".

Scribd are quite annoying. The pitch was "the YouTube for documents" allowing stuff to be posted and shared but they tend to try and get subscription money off you to see anything unlike the likes of YouTube.

But people have stopped talking about the Epstein files. Win for the dear leader.

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