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morcutttoday at 12:55 AM3 repliesview on HN

Sam lost the plot for me. He took too many interviews which led me to not trust him. Last straw came with him standing by Anthropic one day then throwing them under the bus the next. He showed little awareness on why that is problematic.


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tomberttoday at 1:06 AM

That's why I changed as well. I got really irritated how Altman tried to get the social credit by having principles, only to change them the moment it was convenient.

jimbokuntoday at 3:10 AM

I have appreciated Amodei’s brutal honesty about their intentions.

On podcasts his attitude is basically “oh yeah all of you are basically fucked our products will take everyone’s jobs in a couple years.”

Altman is a lot more coy and comes across as saying what’s politically expedient at any given point in time.

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palmoteatoday at 4:02 AM

> Sam lost the plot for me. He took too many interviews which led me to not trust him. Last straw came with him standing by Anthropic one day then throwing them under the bus the next. He showed little awareness on why that is problematic.

It should have become clear to all that he was an untrustworthy person when he was fired from OpenAI by its then-board. My understanding is their complaint was he was lying, untrustworthy, and manipulative; and enough stories came out at the time to confirm that.