borkenstein's comments

On: Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure

[borkenstein]

Throwaway. Can confirm he's a domestic abuser. When deciding where to go after DeepMind, xAI wasn't even on my radar because I knew about this guy.

[rideontime → borkenstein]

"Confirm" implies that others have suggested this? To be clear, my bias is to believe you, but I'd like to have more evidence, or at least more corroboration.

e: Ah, flagged and dead. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44897047

[frakt0x90 → rideontime]

This is what I could find: https://nypost.com/2023/04/20/elon-musk-ai-researcher-igor-b...

[rideontime → frakt0x90]

So it is indisputable fact that he was arrested for misdemeanor domestic violence, and that the police report indicated a "minor injury."

On: Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2021?

[borkenstein]

THE PRIVATDOZENT PODCAST Episode 2: Kurt Gödel's Brilliant Madness

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/episode-2-kurt-godels-brillian...