Comment by thereitgoes456
2 days ago
The reportings at the time said that he was Mark’s 5th choice or similar. It is fairly clear he would prefer Ilya, Murati, Mark Chen, and perhaps others, but they said no, and Alex Wang was the first one to say yes.
The self-supervised mesa-optimizer strikes again
Why in the world would he want Murati? She has absolutely no technical chops and was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.
> was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.
Why do you say that?
Her history was entirely non technical up until openAI.
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Because she was CTO of OpenAI.
Pretty ironic when access to trade secrets and people skills is seen as more important in a technical field than technical competence.
What technical chops does Sam Altman have?
He started coding at age 8
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