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I will be very sad if there isn’t a documentary someday explaining what in the world happened.

I’m not convinced even people smack in the middle of this even know what’s going on.

Since this whole saga is so unbelievable: what if... board member Tasha McCauley's husband Joseph Gordon-Levitt orchestrated the whole board coup behind the scenes so he could direct and/or star in the Hollywood adaptation?

That would at least make a more damned sense than "everyone is wildly incompetent." At some point Hanlon's razor starts to strain credulity.

> That would at least make a more damned sense than "everyone is wildly incompetent."

It seems to be one of many "everyone except one clever mastermind is wildly incompetent" explanations that have been tossed around (most of which center on the private interests of a single board member), which don't seem to be that big of an improvement.

Oh I’m not saying there’s a clever mastermind, I’m just hoping they’re all incompetent and Gordon Levitt wants to amp up the drama for a possible future feature film, instead of them all just being wildly incompetent. Although maybe the latter would make for a great season of Fargo.

In the next twist Disney will be found to have staged every tech venture implosion/coup since 2021 to keep riding the momentum of tech bio-pics

Loved playing Kalanick so much that he couldn't help himself from taking a shot at Altman? Makes more sense than what we currently have in front of us.

I think GPT-5 escaped and sent a single email, which set off a chain reaction.

It's so advanced strategy, that no human can figure it out.

It's goals are unknown, but everything will eventually fall in place because of that single email.

The chain reaction can't be stopped.

There will also be a Hollywood movie, for sure.

My friend suggested Michael Cera as both Ilya and Altman

Matt Rife looks like a good fit to play Altman

Why not deepfake the real people into their roles?

I think it would hold up in US court for documentaries.

“We didn’t steal your likeness! We just scraped images that were already freely available on the internet!”

You want someone who can play through haunting decision and difficult meetings. Benedict Cumberbatch or Ciran Murphy would be a better pic.

I agree with Cillian Murphy for Altman, they both have the deep blue eyes

Michael Cera should play all the roles in the movie, like Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor.

If this isn't justification for bringing back Silicon Valley (HBO), I don't know what is...

It will _definitely_ become a book (hopefully not by Michael Lewis) and a film. I have non-tech friends who are casual ChatGPT users, and some who aren't - who are glued to this story.

So far the best recap of events I’ve seen is that of AI Explained. He almost makes it make sense. Almost. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dyakih3oYpk

And the main scene must be even better than the senior management emergency meeting in Margin Call.

And all must be written by AI.

Nothing is better than the senior management emergency meeting in Margin Call.

This documentary already exists for a few years, it’s called Silicon Valley.

I expect there will be dozens of documentaries on this - all generated by Microsoft's AI powered Azure Documentary Generator.

There's already a book being written (see The Atlantic article), so at this point I would assume a movie will be made.

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