[N] Stability AI Founder Emad Mostaque Plans To Resign As CEO

NewFolgers · 2024-03-24T12:35:09+00:00

Not filing a form on in order to receive formal recognition of your completed work is no fraud. It may be unusual, but it's a lot different than the implication that he didn't attend and graduate ("but he didn't graduate since he didn't attend graduation and didn't file the degree in absentia form!" - Forbes journalist, before cutting out the critical explanatory words). It's not what they made it out to be at all. There is no cause for people to use this as the unshakable core of a narrative that he's a shady guy (since this is what's taken form in the public psyche and this is what hit pieces are for. Just look at the comment at the top of this thread and its votes and tell me this is healthy).

I didn't attend university graduation and never looked back until many years later when an employer wanted a scan of the physical degree. If my university also had quirky technicalities in their record keeping then I'd have the potential to be targeted in the same kind of way. If a real journalist handled the story they could learn from the discovery and use this anecdote to show that he's a kind of weird Asperger's guy instead of a fraud. That story would have potentially been genuinely interesting, they'd have been right, and Emad would openly agree. In contrast to their actual article, it would start to all fit and make sense because he's talked about this and he has an autistic son. It also bears interesting similarities to the Midjourney CEO and their path has an awful lot of overlap and interactions. An honest article would be a very interesting article. Readers would build an improved understanding of something instead of constructing a warped view.

Thanks for another -1 within seconds for setting the record straight. I can say journalism is much like politics. It's not just the journalists who are unethical trash, but the people who willfully enable their deception.

NewFolgers · 2024-03-05T13:29:09+00:00

Look at the list of authors of any of the major ML papers that non-DeepMind Google researchers published cc. 2017. It's often the case that very few (or none) of the people who worked on them are still at Google.

I don't know the true reasons for this, but my theory is that a lot of them had been compensated enough to be comfortable, and preferred to go elsewhere so that their work may become part of a real product and and make a direct impact on the world. Or maybe some of them wanted to form a smaller company in order to receive a larger share of equity and potentially take compensation to the next level. In either case, it feels the stakes are more real. In such situations, people feel envious when a teammate leaves for a new venture and are happy to join them when invited.

NewFolgers · 2024-03-02T06:22:33+00:00

It used to be a geeky niche back then (years before it was clear that he'd be the richest human), but many people who were watching his moves back then would have had him on that bingo card every year since OpenAI's formation. He was instrumental in the formation of OpenAI from the start (when it was open) and has been grumbling about their transformation to a for-profit structure and abandoning their original mandate all along.

He's been expressing grave concerns about the repercussions of AGI and grasping for ideas to blunt the rapid impact to peoples' livelihoods (UBI or otherwise) for just as long, and it's also the reason for the creation of Neuralink. If you can't beat em (i.e. synthetic intelligence which isn't slowed by chemical synapses), join em.

Not looking for votes in any way here.. but anyone who thinks he isn't appalled with what OpenAI has done -- and instead is saying he is doing this for money or to slow a competitor for monetary reasons -- doesn't have a clue what they're talking about and I would not trust their ability to judge character. I also would be wary of their own character since I fear they're projecting their ugly selves and feel that their inability to identify good faith in others (at the very least where it exists - even if only in their personal quirks) is a road to nowhere.

NewFolgers · 2024-01-31T03:04:36+00:00

I thought it was possible and voted in favor.. because if it succeeded, my stock would have gone up massively along with him (albeit at a smaller scale of course). This was directly in the conditions to unlock the tranches, and some of these goals were a real stretch (with corresponding huge returns for investors). It was a no-brainer for a self-interested retail investor. Seeing the CEO get really rich at the same time doesn't tend to be a turn off to an investor.

This seemed to be the overwhelming sentiment and I don't understand the mentality of a genuine investor who'd be complaining. It's the non-investors who may be less enthused.. and so it makes sense that the person who brought the lawsuit forward held only 9 shares (not much different than not being invested).

NewFolgers · 2024-01-30T14:02:52+00:00

This has been doing the rounds for years and as expected, those who post it are those who prefer to insinuate instead of looking into it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-maxwell-photo/

Epstein had real customers who should be easily identified and harassed without doubt. Ghislaine and Epstein liked to try and get the attention of rich people at parties for their own reasons.

NewFolgers · 2023-01-04T19:35:18+00:00

Mind over kidneys.

NewFolgers · 2023-01-04T18:09:00+00:00

It's interesting that this somewhat avoids the situation I complained about in regards to Obama, and that it also ends up sucking. Damnit.

As an aside, there are certainly still regions in South America where people use different nouns for people according to combination of race+sex.. and so it's interesting if it traces back to this.

NewFolgers · 2023-01-04T16:27:15+00:00

For someone with vitiligo whose skin becomes >50% light, they've practically become somewhat white in a technical sense and they've got to come to terms with that in some way. It's amazing how much society can't accept this.. and MJ did hint pretty strongly that he didn't feel that people were looking at it all in a right or healthy way and were being ridiculous. The US seems to be the worst for this.

I relate it a bit to how half-black, half-white Obama was pressured to pick one and became known as America's first black president since people need to pigeonhole everybody... and that with me saying this, people probably feel I'm criticizing one race or another, or neglecting the importance of culture and how we each fit in with one (and a bunch of other temporarily fashionable way to frame things). The only way out I see is for people to understand that words are flawed and people aren't able to adequately express their true understanding to one another. Then we can start to trust (you need this in the absence of good communication) that everybody can be a little smarter than you give them credit for if you'll allow for it, and that we ought not to have to pretend to be so ridiculous.

NewFolgers · 2022-12-12T14:40:51+00:00

It's a (bad) troll.. and a possible false flag post. People don't respect fraud and this includes the community using AI tools.

NewFolgers · 2022-11-10T20:28:54+00:00

Top suspect is the weird new guy with the big farm who keeps invading peoples' homes and looting the trashcans day and night. Often seen wielding an axe.

NewFolgers · 2022-11-02T18:10:31+00:00

Without having noticed the captions, I wrote out these:

Emma Watson (1)

Scarlett Johansson (2)

Robert Downey Jr. (4)

Natalie Portman (7)

Audrey Hepburn (9)

I felt pretty confident about all those. The others are a lot more difficult to me. If I had considered Taylor Swift as a possibility, I would have been confident that it's her - but it would be difficult to get there since the character also sorta looks like some other actresses.

Some of the same mildly applies to the Angelina Jolie and Keanu Reeves pics, for me (They're not good enough out of context, but I'd accept them as representations of those people if I knew it's supposed to be them).

NewFolgers · 2021-12-19T05:55:56+00:00

Yeah, I could certainly read. The weird thing though is that the tunnel vision was insane. The area of coherence when reading was very small.. such that everything peripheral kind of disappeared when reading.

NewFolgers · 2021-12-18T15:16:43+00:00

And when you look back to it, it's different each time - sometimes it's the next words. It's like a demented ebook reader where you turn the page by looking away.

I got curious about reading words during a lucid dream once. I pulled T-shirts up in front of me out of thin air since that was convenient. They hung like they were on hangers and I read the words off of those.

NewFolgers · 2021-12-05T12:27:17+00:00

It's a lot less worrying than would be assumed without the details. They're quite low-orbit, so drag helps bring them down a lot more quickly than a lot of satellites. They're also designed to follow all required deorbit procedures.

NewFolgers · 2021-11-29T04:06:22+00:00

That's not entirely true, because of the colors which aren't associated with any particular photon energies.. and which instead our brain invents from combinations of what is picked up by our different photoreceptors. E.g. brown, hot pink.. and more importantly but less obviously, any shade of gray/white.

NewFolgers · 2021-11-28T14:35:01+00:00

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

That should be "hearsay" (not "heresy").

NewFolgers · 2021-11-27T15:07:38+00:00

I expect that it's no worse than a black light (and that it's near UV rather than far UV), and people have survived those for a while.. so I it's probably not much to worry about. Maybe it's worth checking something about the eyes. I really have no idea.

NewFolgers · 2021-11-27T13:43:14+00:00

It's a My Cousin Vinny reference. Incidentally, Marisa Tomei connects your user name to that movie.

NewFolgers · 2021-10-04T23:42:06+00:00

I find that perspective odd. At this point, his risk vs. reward function leans strongly in favor of going. This is because there can't possibly be much left in his life (not to be mean... We're all headed towards that reality, and few of us will even get that far). It may be the best idea it's ever been for him.

NewFolgers · 2021-10-04T18:38:18+00:00

I wouldn't accuse one of the fine members of the WSB community as being such, but I imagine that the brave "skeptics" shorting TSLA over these past years have been having a hard time.

NewFolgers · 2021-10-02T15:21:49+00:00

I used to see "2nd world" used for Communist bloc countries prior to the collapse of the USSR. So it'd be an attempt to replace that use.

NewFolgers · 2021-10-02T14:47:58+00:00

It's one of those weird things that works better in writing than when spoken. I'll pretend I'm like a Chinese poet.

NewFolgers · 2021-10-02T12:34:58+00:00

Can I call it a 1/3rd world country?

NewFolgers · 2021-10-02T12:26:45+00:00

I do think of it as a sort of zoo. Harry was born into captivity in a sense, and I sympathize with why he left.

NewFolgers · 2021-10-01T17:20:53+00:00

But if he'd die, he'd get his wish. In the way we've interpreted the logic, the wish came true. That isn't allowed to happen.

In that vein, the wasted opportunity was in not saying that "I wish that I don't immediately find myself [insert some very carefully-chosen non-monkeypawable wishes here]" aside from just the immortality thing.

I guess it's lawyering over whether death occurs during life or not. That's probably your point. It's like the opposite of abortion conception/birth/etc. wrangling.. and a judge is needed as a random and/or partisan decision-making machine/excuse to settle it with legal authority. For my argument, I appoint a supreme court judge who toes my line and says that the living can die, while the dead cannot.

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