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AmericanOP··on ‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess
Its the fundamental flaw of outsourcing manufacturing abroad. You cede all growth from innovation.
AmericanOP··on Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling
It would be like trying to measure the GDP of the renaissance, then predict which artists to invest in.
AmericanOP··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
It is a little amusing that we've crowned OpenAI as the destined mother of AGI long before the little sentient chickens have hatched.
AmericanOP··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
The website is twitter.com. Why call it something else?
AmericanOP··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
The OpenAI board was merely demonstrating that not all humans should be trusted with the power of AGI..
AmericanOP··on OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing
Quora is the text version of the Chumbox.

The chumbox is slang for the part of news site web design you... try to ignore. These sites managed to optimize their design for <10% of users who will click just about anything.

AmericanOP··on OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing
For me personally, likely Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice.

One of those random books you purloin in youth, and a total departure from her standard narrative fiction fare. It's a retelling of the original cosmic myth from the... rebellious perspective.

AmericanOP··on OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing
D'Angelo is mad he weaponized web design against Quora users for years because he would go bankrupt otherwise, and now he is going bankrupt anyway. Adam is at war with god, not OpenAI.
AmericanOP··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
Why jockey for a board seat when you can harbor the org
AmericanOP··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
Noted! Thanks
AmericanOP··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
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AmericanOP··on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role
Openness in the context of AI is not straightforward. The open source folks read it one way, and the alignment people read it another.

It is entirely possible a program that spits out the complete code for a nuclear targeting system should not be released in the wild.

AmericanOP··on Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all
IP permissiveness is the basis for LLM quality. Those laws have not been written yet.
AmericanOP··on Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all
Well, that answers if we should continue to build for the GPT platform Sam introduced 11 days ago.

Sad. Thanks for posting.

AmericanOP··on Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all
Ilya and Mira are mad.

They discount the trust-based permission society grants Open AI because of its affiliation with the YC and Silicon Valley model just for LLMs.

AmericanOP··on Greg Brockman quits OpenAI
So I should cancel any plans to build on the GPT platform? Because it doesn't align with the values of Ilya and Helen?

Open AI- we need clarity on your new direction.

AmericanOP··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
It is an odd statement since Ilya and Mira are CTOs. How does a CEO obfuscate technical issues from your CTOs?
AmericanOP··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
So as a developer should I continue to invest on their new platform announced on dev day… or is OpenAi about to pivot to some non-profit infrastructure stuff?

They better communicate who they are right quick. I liked Sam’s product decisions.

AmericanOP··on Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted
Founders/Owners should dilute and return the principal.
AmericanOP··on Don’t Blame AI. Plagiarism Is Turning Digital News into Hot Garbage
… Didn’t Digital News do that on their own? Their web reading experience is so fully slathered over with ads you cannot even tell when the paragraph ends, let alone the article.

But hey, a certain percentage of the population will click fucking anything, so lets optimize for that.

AmericanOP··on Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their libraries
Parents can't afford to send kids to summer camp so they can save for college which is four years of summer camp.
AmericanOP··on Workers AI: Serverless GPU-powered inference
How does Workers AI compare to Replicate.com?
AmericanOP··on Meta Quest 3
Playing ultra-settings Starfield on an old retina MacBook air is mindblowing. GeForce Now, imo, is quietly the killer app of 2023.

> game streaming fad never really takes off

I am in the opposite camp. I want game developers to be freed from local hardware constraints, and indy developers to have access to the same graphical fidelities as AAA. Real, meaningful innovation in gaming is a possibility.

AmericanOP··on Meta Quest 3
GeForce Now.
AmericanOP··on Meta Quest 3
Hey Mark,

Send an email to NVIDIA's GeForce Now bizdev guy.

Develop a cheap-o streaming device and put all the juice in the display.

Congratulations, I just made you billions of dollars. Donate my cut to PETA.

AmericanOP··on LARPing and Violent Extremism
Schrodinger’s bullying
AmericanOP··on What will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future?
I am actually surprised how little UI innovation has bubbled up.
AmericanOP··on Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company
It is a remarkable phenomenon that all three cable news channels in America have dedicated themselves entirely to the individual of Donald Trump, all the way from 2016 to 2024 and beyond.

It defies a certain logic that audiences can tire of Marvel movies that come out a couple times a year, but daily coverage of such an asinine topic for nearly a decade is supported by the market?

Certainly this has to be culturally damaging, but everyone sort of pretends it's normal for the country to focus on the antics and tribulations of one person.

TV runs the country for now but I am optimistic their vapidity will drive the next generations to the internet. There appears to me a growing number of young people growing up online.

AmericanOP··on Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates
Short-term monetization. Like Reddit kicking mods to extract value built from years of diligent practices, but damaging future value of the same resource as content quality degrades.
AmericanOP··on LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short
Sir, this is a thread for people who feel they are very smart to talk about how they feel.
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