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“Groups of senior employees, concerned with Altman’s leadership and lack of transparency, asked Loopt’s board on two occasions to fire him as C.E.O., according to Hagey.”

“As Mark Jacobstein, an older Loopt employee who was asked by investors to act as Altman’s “babysitter,” later told Keach Hagey, for “The Optimist,” a biography of Altman, “There’s a blurring between ‘I think I can maybe accomplish this thing’ and ‘I have already accomplished this thing’ that in its most toxic form leads to Theranos,” Elizabeth Holmes’s fraudulent startup.”

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/veLhW

I read he’s a vegetarian out of concern for animals, and that’s a good moral sign (but perhaps less relevant here).

Are / were there precursor concerns arising to signal back then? I don’t know.

Comment · 3 months ago

It’s well-known Brockman and his wife donated $25 million to MAGA Inc., the main super PAC supporting Donald Trump.

The main higher-level factor is our patriarchal culture (and more bad things tend to stem from places where that’s intense).

Comment · 3 months ago

This is super, but students will have access to AI during the test in real life, so it's ironically less realistic to remove it (thinking of the "... GPT-4 actually harmed subsequent performance by 17% when the tool was removed ..." part).

I'm more curious how students perform on the test with vs. without AI.

Comment · 4 months ago

So Opus might be correct?

Comment · 4 months ago

An LLM disproved a famous 80-year-old conjecture.

Comment · 4 months ago

True, during Covid when blue collar in-person maga unemployment skyrocketed, the Fed could have avoided increasing the money supply. I wish they had, bc we all had to pay the resulting inflation cost. How were thanked for it? Tons of Constitutional law-breaking.