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[gunnar @gunnarfranek]

Embarrassment is the fee of entry.

[Suhail @Suhail]

If you’re good at predicting the overall trend of a field but bad at predicting what to work on in the interim, make an important thing you want to be true in the macro your North Star. Then design the company around the unknowable - the premise that you expect to adapt.

[gunnar @gunnarfranek]

Birds have bodies too.

[gunnar @gunnarfranek]

I’m not gaslighting you, you’re just crazy.

[gunnar @gunnarfranek]

@MrMbosh @SenTomCotton @benshapiro Yes.

[gunnar @gunnarfranek]

@DustinMock8 @SenTomCotton @benshapiro The propagation of communist interests that clearly rival our own is far more dangerous than the propagation of DEI initiatives.

[gunnar @gunnarfranek]

@Ekon_Miasma @SenTomCotton @benshapiro The answer to your question depends on your interests. It’s clear that roughly a third of the US population is on TikTok. Abiding by principles while ignoring the reality can come at a cost. One of the core responsibilities of government is protection against foreign adversaries.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Let's assume, for discussion, that AI in 2024 is like atomic technology in 1943, that AI should therefore be handled like the Manhattan Project, and that the specific risk is that the Chinese Communist Party gains access to American AI. And let's use OpenAI as an example of an American AI R&D facility.

What counterintelligence capabilities does OpenAI have to prevent China from stealing our AI?

What you'd expect to see is a rigorous security vetting and clearance process for everyone from the CEO to the cook, with monthly polygraphs and constant internal surveillance. Hardened physical facilities, what are called SCIFs (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities), US Marines or the equivalent as 24x7 armed guards, Faraday cages and electronic countermeasures. Alarms going off if someone carries so much as an Apple AirTag into the building. And someone very much like Boris Pash overseeing it all, interrogating and terrorizing people in all directions.

Remember, even WITH tight security, the Russians still got the atomic bomb from the US via their spies in the 1940s. The first Russian atomic bomb is said to have been "wire for wire compatible" with the American Nagasaki bomb, thanks to David Greenglass and the Rosenbergs. So to protect AI, you need even TIGHTER security. Remember, this is a civilizational threat!

Is this what we see at OpenAI or any other American AI lab? No. In fact, what we see is the opposite -- the security equivalent of swiss cheese. Chinese penetration of these labs would be trivially easy using any number of industrial espionage methods, such as simply bribing the cleaning crew to stick USB dongles into laptops. My own assumption is that all such American AI labs are fully penetrated and that China is getting nightly downloads of all American AI research and code RIGHT NOW.

The conclusion is obvious: OpenAI must be immediately nationalized.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today.

Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out.

We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. Here is what we know:

- Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday. Sam joined a Google Meet and the whole board, except Greg, was there. Ilya told Sam he was being fired and that the news was going out very soon.

- At 12:19pm, Greg got a text from Ilya asking for a quick call. At 12:23pm, Ilya sent a Google Meet link. Greg was told that he was being removed from the board (but was vital to the company and would retain his role) and that Sam had been fired. Around the same time, OpenAI published a blog post.

- As far as we know, the management team was made aware of this shortly after, other than Mira who found out the night prior.

The outpouring of support has been really nice; thank you, but please don’t spend any time being concerned. We will be fine. Greater things coming soon.

[gunnar @gunnarfranek]

Those entrenched in expectations will eventually rationalize [un]fulfillment.

[gunnar @gunnarfranek]

To work backwards is to assume you’re right

[Sam Altman @sama]

today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here:

https://t.co/uWra8LKFMN