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OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 11 months ago by brihuang95@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

I guess this will have to do as entertainment until GRRM finishes his damn book.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On the one hand, the board was an insane cult of effective altruism / longtermism / LessWrong, so fuck them. But on the other hand, this was a worker revolt for the capitalists, which I guess shouldn’t be surprising since tech workers famously lack class consciousness.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

an insane cult of effective altruism / longtermism / LessWrong

I'm out of the loop. What's the problem with those things?

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

It's basically the paperclip maximizer combined with human arrogance/hubris. Just skim the criticism sections of the articles linked.