I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar.
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@0xabad1dea Though I left in 2019 before it became a household name, I used to work for OpenAI for a time. I still remember the chill I felt when I walked into the kitchen one time and he, sitting in a chair next to the door, said hi and addressed me by name. That may not sound like much, but when the ultra-rich CEO of a company you're a low level grunt at knows your name, it still imparts quite a sense of dread.
@0xabad1dea I interacted with Greg Brockman a lot more, and I realized at some point the allegations that came out at some point about him being transphobic behind an unnamed transitioning employee's back might have been about me...the timeline mentioned in the document lines up. I don't actually know if that's true or not, since I never directly saw it happening, and no one ever reached out to me about it. But I don't know who else it might have been about either.
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@0xabad1dea I interacted with Greg Brockman a lot more, and I realized at some point the allegations that came out at some point about him being transphobic behind an unnamed transitioning employee's back might have been about me...the timeline mentioned in the document lines up. I don't actually know if that's true or not, since I never directly saw it happening, and no one ever reached out to me about it. But I don't know who else it might have been about either.
@0xabad1dea I guess this doesn't have anything to do with your thoughts on Sam Altman but I certainly had some Experiences while I was there (mid-2017 through early 2019)
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@0xabad1dea I guess this doesn't have anything to do with your thoughts on Sam Altman but I certainly had some Experiences while I was there (mid-2017 through early 2019)
@endrift valid
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I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
@0xabad1dea No idea how close to reality it is, but John le Carre’s pseudo-biographical book about a dad con man really comes to mind. His dad was certainly a con man, so that much is true.
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I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
@0xabad1dea That visceral reaction is such a good barometer, but it sucks that you had to learn it from your father's actions.
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I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
@0xabad1dea Pay attention to your reflex, Altman is credibly accused by his sister Annie of emotional and sexual abuse as well.
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I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
@0xabad1dea It sucks you had to go through that and I can sympathize. Fortunately not from personal experience but unfortunately, from observation of the other kids in the area I grew up. Including children in my family. Strong gut feelings are good for pointing towards the evidence
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I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
@0xabad1dea "I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled."
The basic rule for both parents and politicians: Do not promise to do anything that the world might conspire to prevent you from delivering.
Which basically means do not promise to do anything unless you have already done it.
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I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
@0xabad1dea
Yep. That guy raises more red flags than the PRC on the day they have a new party chairperson. -
@0xabad1dea "I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled."
The basic rule for both parents and politicians: Do not promise to do anything that the world might conspire to prevent you from delivering.
Which basically means do not promise to do anything unless you have already done it.
@TimWardCam sometimes things do happen; I'd like to think I'm a reasonable adult who's not sitting around traumatized because one time he legitimately couldn't make it to the school play. This was over and over and over, like clockwork, to the point my mother started forecasting his next excuse.
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I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
@0xabad1dea First: Having a liar as a caregiver sounds awful, and It should not have happened to you or any other child. Second: I think we've got plenty of instances from non-paywalled sources documenting Altman exaggerating, minimizing, and flat-out lying through his teeth that the conclusion probably won't change with this once source.
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I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
@0xabad1dea It's in their characterics, of becoming billionaires after a selfish obsession.
Tolkien comes to rescue my thoughts: their attachment to their gold ring is a Gollum's syndrome, they can only be slimy, disgusting creatures, no matter how powerful is their "precious". -
I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
@0xabad1dea that sounds right to me as well, and it's been a long time since I've wasted my time hearing him talk
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@KitsuneVixi @0xabad1dea @afx Many years ago I worked as a therapist in a program treating juvenile sexual offenders. Annie Altman's claims, as related in this piece, are very familiar. The pattern of the rest of her family circling the wagons and joining their older child in denying the claims is also familiar. It was such a common pattern that we had form letters we would send to judges and probation officers; parts of the treatment program were made specifically to deal with this pattern.
That doesn't mean Annie is telling the truth, of course; fundamentally, sexual abuse is usually hidden because offenders don't want to get caught, and there are enough instances of false accusations (sometimes with apparent full belief that they were correct) that we can't say that every accusation that fits the description is accurate. However, research consistently shows that those numbers are heavily skewed so that, in the words of a former treatment colleague, if you just believe every accusation of child sexual abuse you will not be wrong very often.
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I do not have a sub or a free access link with which to read the New Yorker article on whether Sam Altman is a habitual liar. But I can say this.
I was raised by a man who’d lie constantly. He’d promise me anything and everything, and there was always some last-second off-screen emergency that prevented it from being fulfilled. When I questioned why we were always broke if he made so much money, he assured me I just didn’t understand yet how expensive life really is; as an adult with less income and more mortgage who’s nonetheless in the black, I know it literally doesn’t add up.
Sam Altman triggers my instinctive disgust reflex. Every photo, every video, every voice clip fills me with an urge to either scream at him or get the fuck away. I don’t know this man. But I know his damage.
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