On: OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

[TheOtherHobbes]

At this point I'm imagining Sam and the gang getting their orders from a loudspeaker in a room full of blinking lights, inhabited by a thin moving shimmer that looks more and more like a basilisk with every action they take.

[Ntrails → TheOtherHobbes]

Sam started wearing an earring lately - some wearable tech prototype. I'm told it is never wrong.

[nasmorn → Ntrails]

And it whispers in his ear like the slave behind the triumphant.

Remember YOU are only a man.

[esafak → TheOtherHobbes]

This was his thinking in 2017: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-merge

[ambicapter → esafak]

He’s basically been chasing non-accountability his entire life. This would be its final form, he completely abdicates all of his thinking to a machine (of his own creation).