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Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc

I'm watching the OpenAI for-profit conversions closely and I'm not at all persuaded that they're going to arrive at a fair price for buying out the nonprofit (a true fair price would be really really high!), but it really does look like Elon's complaints are bad faith.

180 likes9 repliesPosted Dec 13, 2024

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I think OpenAI did basically betray its commitments to its early investors but it's so absurd to have Musk being the one suing when he 1) didn't seem to care until it affected him personally and 2) is now running a fully for-profit competitor.

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If Hegseth is smart, he'll fire the morons who dragged him into this fight, try to get other labs cleared for classified engagement, and fire Anthropic in a year if this is a real problem then. However, I haven't heard any indications that my condition in that sentence holds.

A while ago Jerusalem Demsas reached out to me to pitch me on a job. She said a lot of things, but one that really stuck with me was 'liberals are not temporarily embarrassed communists. We have our own ideology and we've got to make the case for it."

o4-mini-high is the first AI to pass my personal secret benchmark for hallucinations and complex reasoning, so I guess now I can tell you all what that benchmark is. It's simple: I post a complex midgame chessboard and 'mate in one'. The chessboard does not have a mate in one.

Finally, I want to make it clear that I contacted OpenAI in the course of reporting this story. So did my colleague @SigalSamuel . They had every opportunity to reach out to the ex-employees they'd pressured into silence and say this was a misunderstanding. I hope they do.

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