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I thought that was what this was about.


As did I so I read the article, and no, Candlestick was not the first stadium that died due to it being massively uncomfortable to go there at times.



Could they...employ their own services?


Eric Schmidt works remotely.


And COVID let everyone try working the way VCs always have. Unsurprisingly everyone liked it.


Precisely my observation of the capital vs labor aspect of COVID.

We all got a taste of the flexibility the C-suite has always exercised, and they don't like that. Now that the job market has turned enough they are trying to take it away as hard & fast as possible.

It would take a serious downturn to kill it completely and even then I doubt it. While you don't see a lot of arcade games in offices anymore, they didn't get people back to wearing suits...

As soon as you get into competition for talent, in-office 2~3-day vs 4-day, or hybrid vs full in-office will quickly become a selling point again.


> Scott Adams (before he went a bit cuckoo)

Apropo of nothing his book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" was excellent, I remember seeing when he first joined Twitter. I was one of his first few followers, even said "welcome" and he said "thanks".

Then he got divorced and angry and red pilled. Happens far too often..


> Are they just banking on people not caring enough or knowing about the refund process?

This seems to be the official policy for many retailers, insurance companies, etc. Hide the process, make it difficult, so you don't have to pay out as much.


Dude can't tell the truth about anything.


And he's on the US national security advisory board for AI safety. WTF.


Still, he'll be out of a job as soon as AI perfects psychopath emulation.


Right; I had a general understanding that Ms. Johanson had consented to usage of her voice-likeness.


She very much did not. And the point is Sam said "we had no idea that voice sounded like her" when in reality they built it with that in mind.


you're terribly misquoting- altman heard that the voice they were working with happened to sound like johannson, so he tried to extend an agreement out of good faith. if she didn't want to accept credit for just happening to sound like the scientifically correct voice how is that dishonest?

reminds me of how he gets blamed for his sister wanting to renege on cutting herself out of their father's will, fortunately everyone seems to see through that charade


The statement linked, apparently quoting Johannson, states that Sam Altman himself contacted her nine months ago and requested her cooperation in using her voice.

That was declined ...

It appears they continued w/out her using a voice so close that close friends are unable to tell the two voices apart.

"Accidently" indistinguishable is not a thing.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421564 for another comment that hammers that point.


"she didn't want to accept credit for just happening to sound like the correct voice"

Are you being serious?


I don't think i'm going to hear "Are we calling all software updates recalls now?" anymore


neoclassical architecture !


That game was so, so good. Do you know any others that feel the same way? (doesn't have to be about hacking)


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