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> He further added that OpenAI’s some of the best talents are working remotely. He said, "some of our best people are remote, and we will continue to support it always, so please don't let hating SF stop you from applying to OpenAI! I don't like the open air fentanyl markets either.”

The above line seems to contradict the part about '..worst mistake of the tech industry'

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It’s good for us, but not for you.

Is this an outdated view the article interposed? Is he only talking about startups given his YC background?

Article isn't that clear.

Is open ai not a startup?

After their partnership with Microsoft, no IMO.

I’m sure he could provide them some office space if he’s worried about the market having to operate outside.

Yeah that was particularly gross and unbecoming

I think being open and honest about the problems the electorate and elected leaders have caused is the first step in the direction of fixing them.

I think claiming something is a problem while doing the thing that you say is a problem and in doing so generating the largest and fastest pile of valuation $$$$ in the history of man kind is a problem.

If wanted to be open and honest he would be attaching the wealthiest and paltry wealth and corporate taxes, not those on the bottom suffering from medical conditions like chemical addiction.

Hey, it could be worse! People could be working for Altman's other plaything Worldcoin, collecting retinal scans of the poor and desperate in India, Indonesia and parts of Africa and handing out company scrip as 'compensation'.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/sam-altmans-worldcoin-want...

Hypocrisy from the guy who is both publicly an AI doomer with a stocked AI apocalypse retreat and an AI firm CEO promoting his product as either near or actually being AGI?

Who would expect that?

Is he really a doomer because he fears AI?

Sounds like Mike Judge needs to bring Silicon Valley back because reality has jumped the shark and made the original series seem mundane in retrospect. He needs to up the ante.

Given what we've seen of Altman's success [1], what's more likely: that he believes something so nonsensical, or that this article is badly written and the GP comment inaccurate?

[1] To be clear, I have doubts about just how far LLM's can continue to improve and how much they will really transform the world; but the influence of OpenAI so far is plain for all to see.

Hah, yeah. Classic Freudian slip. The best endorsement for remote work right there.

It's almost like Sam Altman is desperately trying to downplay the significance of remote work, while simultaneously relying on it for OpenAI's success. What a paradox, amirite?

Seems like Sam Altman's actions speak louder than his words, embracing remote work for OpenAI's top talents while critiquing the very same practice.

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