• ribboo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s rather interesting here that the board, consisting of a fairly strong scientific presence, and not so much a commercial one, is getting such hate.

    People are quick to jump on for profit companies that do everything in their power to earn a buck. Well, here you have a company that fires their CEO for going too much in the direction of earning money.

    Yet every one is all up in arms over it. We can’t have the cake and eat it folks.

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      1 year ago

      It’s my opinion that every single person in the upper levels is this organization is a maniac. They are all a bunch of so-called “rationalist” tech-right AnCaps that justify their immense incomes through the lens of Effective Altruism, the same ideology that Sam Bankman-fried used to justify his theft of billions from his customers.

      Anybody with the urge to pick a “side” here ought to think about taking a step back and reconsider; they are all bad people.

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        even outside the upper tiers, high paid tech workers do mental gymnastics to rationalize the shittiness they do via their companies while calling themselves liberal. motherfuckers will union bust for their company for a larger TC next year then go on LinkedIn or Facebook and spin it like “I successfully destroyed a small town’s economy, killed a union forming in the division I manage, and absolutely threw my coworkers under the bus this year. My poor father swept countless floors until his hands bled so I can be here today and that’s why I support the small working man and will never forget where I came from #boss”

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      1 year ago

      Well, here you have a company that fires their CEO for going too much in the direction of earning money.

      Yeah, honestly, that’s music to my ears. Imagine a world where organizations weren’t in the business of pursuing capital at any cost.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like the workers all want to end up with highly valued stocks when it goes IPO. Which is, and I’m just guessing here, the only reason anyone is doing AI right now.

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      1 year ago

      I immediately thought that the board was bad, then read the context…

      so are the employees backing Altman because it means more money for the company/them? Or is there another reason?

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      1 year ago

      Is that actually the case? I’ve not seen any actual information yet about what happened or why they did what they did.

      If they’ve actually stated that the guy was fired because the company was going too far down the focus on money making route, that would be huge news I’d be really interested in hearing.

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      From the outside, this story plays out like a bunch of snivelling family members of a lottery winner who plotted to steal all his money and throw him out, because he’s “not candid”.

      The rest of the family, who also lived with the guy, clearly don’t agree and are now demanding that the thieves turn themselves in.

      I mean, sure they may even have real reasons to kick him out, but man did they fuck this one up…