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Despite not publicly moving away from what has been said about Sam*

Jessica Livingston's personal stake in OpenAI is maybe at most 0.1% or less and Paul Graham's, afaik, is 0.

So the bias doesn't seem as large as OP thinks

*https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2041366050693173393

And "toughness, adaptability, and determination" >>> "ambition", frankly

Seems to be an unusually quiet post for something posted 3 hours ago.
Greg Brockman (President of OpenAI) also said that OpenAI is around 80% close to achieving "AGI", but it was disclosed that his stake in OpenAI is worth around 30BN.

So what does the true definition of "AGI" actually mean? It depends on who you ask.

It appears to many to mean "A Great IPO" or "A Gigantic IPO" at this point rather than "Artificial General Intelligence" which has been clearly hijacked to mean something else.

Nothing unusual. There's not an AI company (mostly AI wrappers) on planet in which Y Combinator hasn't sprinkled their cash already.

I'd go as far to say that it's impossible at this point to form an AI company without YCombinator not investing in it.

i always thought there were two reasons for AI interest on HN.

1. since AI has captured the imagination of capitalists and they think this is the next industrial revolution, they gotta be in it to win it. combined with the fact that i believe most people here are wealthy or at least aspirationally so, that explained half of it.

2. the other half is that AI as a tech is interesting from a mathematical and compsci point of view, tho certainly not interesting enough to justify the proportion of topics about it here.

i guess i should add a 3rd reason.

3. ycomb has a financial stake in spreading the news about how wonderful this tech is!

lolol

Even if ycombinator doesn’t have ownership in OpenAI, they do have ownership in a lot of AI startups and would still be incentivized to spread AI news
The interest in AI is global and spans nearly every corner of the Internet, it’s not something exclusive to HN. The root cause of this is #1 by a wide margin. Our society is governed by money, the investor class sees an opportunity to become trillionaires, the labor class is afraid of becoming the permanent underclass, all of these things are defined by money.
I'll present an alternative set of reasons:

1. AI is tremendously useful at the current intelligence level and people here like to be more productive.

2. AI is exciting - both in the potential applications and new models getting smarter.

3. Many workers here have either transitioned to building agents or they're heavily using AI for their work.

It also can give insights into natural intelligence.
Could someone (non-AI) summarize this? I'm sorry but I just literally don't have time to even read long posts from very reputable sources. I know I need the info but time just isn't there in my life right now.
Just skip and ignore if you don’t have the time, you likely have more important things to do
News at Y Combinator used to be my preferred reading diversion: reading interesting technical stories, debates on political topics, learning things, my comfort food of the same topics repeating the same arguments over the span of a decade. Now it’s that but also 65% AI doomscrolling.
The AI bothered me less, but I got a little frustrated with less than substantive comments on the front page.

Oddly I made an extension* to use the site more the way I wanted and now I find it a little easier to get a higher SNR past the front page and am enjoying that. I didn't really get past post rank 60 for two decades and now generally get much further.

*(It's basically vim-keys support for basically two functions. A function to "highlight" stories/comment threads I think will be promising and then hide function for the rest.)

How much money did Y Combinator invest to get that 0.6% stake? I hope it was more than zero. Funny how in 2019 they just start doling out shares in a previously shareless entity.
Sam Altman was president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. of course YC has a stake in OpenAI. My surprise is why it is that low…