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throwaway74852on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

So OpenAI's board is now exclusively white men, and predominantly tech insiders? Lovely to have such a diverse group behind this technology Could this be more comical?

throwaway74852on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

The dude is a quack.

throwaway74852on Researchers find link between plastic additive and autism, ADHD

Sorry it got 69 times better or 6800% better. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html.

throwaway74852on Researchers find link between plastic additive and autism, ADHD

Hi autistic here. One thing to keep in mind is that autism prevalence appears to be increasing because testing has gotten better : was 0.04% when I was a kid 30 years ago, now 2.78%. Also Asperger's was merged into ASD in 2013. Keep this in mind when reading sources like this.