Post AcFrKbfYvayOrLL4KG by cydonian@social.vivaldi.net
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 (DIR) Post #AcFrKZdMUo1aXwIHcO by cydonian@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-11-28T00:09:14Z
       
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       “Altman's history goes like this: first, he founded a useless startup that raised $30m, only to be acquired and shuttered. Then Altman got a job running Y Combinator, where he somehow failed at taking huge tranches of equity from "every Stanford dropout with an idea for software to replace something Mommy used to do." After that, he founded OpenAI, a company that he claims to believe presents an existential risk to the entire human risk – which he structured so incompetently that he was then forced out of it.His reward for this string of farcical, mounting failures? He was put back in charge of the company he mis-structured despite his claimed belief that it will destroy the human race if not properly managed.”This and other hits by @pluralistic on the moral injury of your work getting enshittified. https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/
       
 (DIR) Post #AcFrKbfYvayOrLL4KG by cydonian@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-11-28T00:12:18Z
       
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       @pluralistic This too:“Tech workers once dreamed of working for a big, unwieldy firm for a few years before setting out on their own to topple it with a startup. Then, the dream shrank: work for that big, clumsy firm for a few years, then do a fake startup that makes a fake product that is acquihired by your old employer, as an incredibly inefficient and roundabout way to get a raise and a bonus.Then the dream shrank again: work for a big, ugly firm for life, but get those perks, the massages and the kombucha and the stock options and the gourmet cafeteria and the egg-freezing. Then it shrank again: work for Google for a while, but then get laid off along with 12,000 co-workers, just months after the company does a stock buyback that would cover all those salaries for the next 27 years”
       
 (DIR) Post #AcFsR8Ad6PuZLqXrWK by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
       2023-11-28T05:13:08.012960Z
       
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       huh, interesting. I didn't follow this at all really. A friend mentioned it to me and I saw the Fireship video. It's a few days old so I assume it's probably really out of date:https://odysee.com/@fireship:6/the-truth-about-the-openai-drama:d