<story><title>Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*</title><url>https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1728126868342145481</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>One thing that makes no sense about Sam Altman hiding the Q* progress from the board is that Ilya Sutskever was part of the board too. As he is the technical lead and Altman isn&amp;#x27;t technical at all, how would it be a secret from Sutskever?&lt;p&gt;NB: I know nothing about these people and don&amp;#x27;t track it, but my consistency check failed on this claim based on the flood of news over the past week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gexla</author><text>It makes no sense because nobody but Sam and the board knows what actually happened.&lt;p&gt;My guess is that they arrived to an inflection point. The company was on the cusp of taking an investment which would have valued it at 80 billion. One of the board members mentioned that self destruction would have been in line with their mission of safety for humanity. It seems like at some point you have to ditch the &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;re doing this for the benefit of humanity&amp;quot; act and act like a profit hungry machine with a startup CEO going balls out. In this case, &amp;quot;balls out&amp;quot; won. The board was way too late. The AGI escaped with the creation of the for-profit company.</text></comment>
<story><title>Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*</title><url>https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1728126868342145481</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tasty_freeze</author><text>One thing that makes no sense about Sam Altman hiding the Q* progress from the board is that Ilya Sutskever was part of the board too. As he is the technical lead and Altman isn&amp;#x27;t technical at all, how would it be a secret from Sutskever?&lt;p&gt;NB: I know nothing about these people and don&amp;#x27;t track it, but my consistency check failed on this claim based on the flood of news over the past week.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ugh123</author><text>Maybe it wasn&amp;#x27;t secret, and Ilya wanted to bring it to the board but Sam fought him.</text></comment>