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thereitgoes456 | 4 months ago

The reportings at the time said that he was Mark’s 5th choice or similar. It is fairly clear he would prefer Ilya, Murati, Mark Chen, and perhaps others, but they said no, and Alex Wang was the first one to say yes.

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tsunamifury|4 months ago

Why in the world would he want Murati? She has absolutely no technical chops and was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.

hn_throwaway_99|4 months ago

> was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.

Why do you say that?

shuckles|4 months ago

Because she was CTO of OpenAI.

bobxmax|4 months ago

What technical chops does Sam Altman have?

arthurcolle|4 months ago

The self-supervised mesa-optimizer strikes again