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Ronan Farrow here. Andrew Marantz and I spent 18 months on this investigation. Happy to answer questions about the reporting.
by ronanfarrow 5mo ago
Ronan Farrow here. Andrew Marantz and I spent 18 months on this investigation. Happy to answer questions about the reporting.
- spacebacon 5mo agoAsk him about the “hermetic order”(that is either emergent, convergent or by design?)one discovers in interiority studies of GPT.
- loloquwowndueo 5mo ago[flagged]
- LoganDark 5mo agoMany browsers let you disable autoplay globally.
- loloquwowndueo 5mo agoSure, there are a couple of buttons I can press to stop the video. Why do I have to? Find me one person who likes auto playing videos. The page was created with a deliberate annoying choice that I have to go out of my way to override.
- LoganDark 5mo agoI'm not talking about pausing the video after it starts playing. I'm talking about a global setting to prevent videos from playing before you manually unpause them. Safari has such a setting, for instance.
- loloquwowndueo 5mo agoExactly what “I have to go out of my way to override” covers, from my comment.
- LoganDark 5mo agoIf you don't configure your software when you first start using it, I don't know what to tell you. This shouldn't be "out of your way". You should have set this when you first started using your browser. If you didn't for whatever reason, don't be surprised when autoplaying videos exist.
- loloquwowndueo 5mo agoDunno man, NOBODY likes auto playing videos, yet creators keep using them for reasons unknown. This is starting to sound a lot like victim blaming. Auto playing videos should not exist, period. End of story.
- LoganDark 5mo agoI don't like them either...
- binarymax 5mo agoWhy do you think the author of this piece, to who you originally replied, has any control over this?
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- cmiles8 5mo agoGreat reporting. Altman describes his shifting views as genuine good faith evolution of thinking. Do you believe he has a clear North Star behind all this that’s not centered on himself?
- _bypa 5mo ago(Other people's) money.
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoThe piece is an interrogation of this very question, at great length and with some nuance. I think what it does most usefully is scrutinize an array of different answers to the question. My own impression after many hours of conversation is that he is identifying something of a true north star when he frames this around "winning." There are people in the story who talk about him emphasizing a desire for power (as opposed to, say, wealth). I think he probably also believes, to some extent, the story he tells that equates winning, and his gaining power, with a superabundant utopian future for all. However, I think critics correctly highlight a tension between his statements about centering humanity writ large and his tilt into relentless accelerationism.
- scyzoryk_xyz 5mo ago"I'm a sophomore and I'm coming!"
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- cs702 5mo agoThank you for coming on HN and offering to answer questions.[a] This is a fantastic piece, very timely, evidently well-researched, and also well-written. Judging by the little that I know, it's accurate. Thank you for doing the work and sharing it with the world. OpenAI may be in a more tenuous competitive position than many people realize. Recent anecdotal evidence suggests the company has lost its lead in the AI race to Anthropic.[b] Many people here, on HN, who develop software prefer Claude, because they think it's a better product.[c] Is your understanding of OpenAI's current competitive position similar? --- [a] You may want to provide proof online that you are who you say you are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_knows_you're_a_dog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_know... [b] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-04-01/openais-shocking-fall-from-grace-as-investors-race-to-anthropic https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-04-01/openais-sh... [c] For example, there are 2x more stories mentioning Claude than ChatGPT on HN over the past year. Compare https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=true&query=openai&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru... to https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=true&query=chatgpt&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
- brightbeige 5mo agoHe’s replying on this twitter thread - perhaps someone with an account can ask there and link his comment here? https://xcancel.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532#m https://xcancel.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532#m
- jamiequint 5mo agoHere is the actual link, not a link to some weird third-party site that can't be trusted. https://x.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532 https://x.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532
- SwellJoe 5mo agoWhereas X can be trusted?
- xnx 5mo agoIn depth reporting is great. This is a really tricky topic to cover over the course of 18 months. A year and a half ago OpenAI was ascendant, now it's -at best- stalling and, more likely, trending toward irrelevant.
- taurath 5mo agoThe statements around the sexual abuse allegations seemed to be the most puzzling to me - his sister’s allegations and claims of underage partners because he has a tendency to hook up with younger partners. It does seem like this piece gives him a pretty clean bill of health in that matter - I guess would you be able to talk about how you investigated? Did you do any extra investigations into Annie’s allegations? It feels to me like the unstated conclusion is recovered memory can’t be trusted, which is a popular understanding but a very wrong one put out by the now defunct and discredited False Memory Syndrome Foundation. It was founded by the parents of the psychologist who coined DARVO, directly in reaction to her accusing them of abuse. Dissociation is real (I have a dissociative disorder, and abuse I “recovered” but did not remember for much of my adolescence and early adulthood has been corroborated by third parties) and many CSA survivors have severe memory problems that often don’t come to a head until adulthood. I know you didn’t dismiss her claim, but the way the public tends to think about recovered memories is shaped primarily by that awful organization.
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoAll fair points on trauma and memory. As noted in the piece, we spent months talking to Altman's partners and what we found and didn't is as described.
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- gowld 5mo agoThat's not a fair assessment. "False memory syndrome" and "repressed/recovered memory" are both outside scientific mainstream consensus.
- FloorEgg 5mo agoHi Ronan, I would love to read your piece and pay you and new Yorker for it, but I am not interested in paying a subscription. If I could press a button and pay a reasonable one time license such as $3 or $5 for just this article, or better yet a few cents per paragraph as they load in, I wouldn't hesitate. However I'm not going to pay for yet another subscription to access one article I'm interested in. I'm sure you can't do anything about this, but I just wanted you to know. You deserve to be compensated for great journalism. In this case, unfortunately, I won't read it and you won't earn income from me.
- caycep 5mo agoYou could hit up a public library...
- eichin 5mo agoLooking online it looks like the newsstand price of an issue is around $10 (which I'd assume is heavily ad subsidized, if anyone is still buying print ads?) which is an interesting data point for a pricing model. (Of course, I looked online because I have no idea where I'd find a newsstand around here - the nearest newsstand that show up on google maps has reviews that say "It's just snacks and scratch tickets." and "three newspapers and no magazines" - I may have to stop by just to see what three newspapers they have :-)
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- IrishTechie 5mo agoI’ve often thought about a model like this and would love to see a few news outlets run it as a pilot and see how it stacks up.
- mikeyouse 5mo agoMany have tried it (as well as the oft-recommended micropayments idea) and it never justifies the added expense and overhead of the customization. Closest is probably the NYTimes’ gift article feature.
- fblp 5mo agoHi Ronan appreciate you being here. what would help you and others continue to do journalism like this? (including commenting on HN?)
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoThis is a vast and tricky question. The business model has basically fallen out from under journalism, and especially this kind of labor-intensive investigative reporting. The media landscape is increasingly dominated by moneyed individuals and companies essentially buying up the discourse. I would really suggest subscribing to and finding ways to amplify independent outlets and journalists, and encouraging others to do so.
- fblp 5mo agoGot it! Any recommendations on who to subscribe to? Any personal links for you? In developer communities often you can support individual developers or groups through a monthly subscription / donation on their github page or similar.
- mplanchard 5mo agoWell, this piece was in The New Yorker, which is reasonably priced and regularly includes excellent investigative journalism. I get the physical copies, which can be too much to keep up with if you try to read everything, but it’s easy enough if you skim and just read the things that stick out as being of particular interest.
- ilamont 5mo agoThe New Yorker also comes with Apple News+ subscriptions (part of an Apple One plan that many people get for extra iCloud storage) which further includes a number of top-tier and local news orgs such as the Wall Street Journal, LA Times, SF Chronicle, Times of London, etc. The Sam Altman piece can be read here: https://apple.news/APTX4OkywRWeJXIL7b8a7zQ https://apple.news/APTX4OkywRWeJXIL7b8a7zQ
- rhlannx 5mo agoI have the feeling that if you write an article in that style, the subject of the story becomes the hero even if you insert a couple of negatives. In the same manner that Michael Corleone becomes the hero of The Godfather. I'm not pleased with the headline and the general framing that AI works. The plagiarism and IP theft aspects are entirely omitted. The widespread disillusion with AI is omitted. On the positive side, the Kushner ad Abu Dhabi involvements (and threats from Kushner) deserve a wider audience. My personal opinion is that "who should control AI" is the wrong question. In the current state, it is an IP laundering device and I wonder why publications fall silent on this. For example, the NYT has abandoned their crown witness Suchir Balaji who literally perished for his convictions (murder or not).
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoFor what it’s worth, I don’t think the piece at all avoids key areas of disillusionment with the technology. Quite the contrary.
- Stevvo 5mo agoLove the visual. Fantastic.
- jzymbaluk 5mo agoHi Ronan, thanks for the article and for answering questions. My question is, how do you know when an enormous project like this, conducted over an 18-month time span is "done"? I assume you get a lot of leeway from editors and publishers on this matter. How do you make the decision to finally pull the trigger on publishing?
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoThe answer is that there really is no easy answer. It's an evolving assessment based on a complex matrix of considerations. You try to reach a critical mass of detailed, rounded understanding of a central question, integrating the most meaningful perspectives, interrogating the weak points and blind spots, and backing up the assertions with documentary evidence or strong sourcing. Eventually, you reach a point where enough sources and materials are reliably triangulating toward the same truths. As you guessed, there's external pressures that figure in this analysis—whether competitors are closing in on the same leads; what's happening in the broader news cycle that might make a story feel more or less relevant. As you also guessed, I am more fortunate than most writers in the degree to which I get to hold off until something feels fully baked. Mostly, writers simply have to hit a deadline, and resources run out before ambition does. I have deadlines and constraints too, but I get a lot of say in how I organize all of the above. Then there's the actual process of creating the story. Writing a densely evidence-based investigative piece is labor-intensive—in this case, weeks of initial drafting, and then much iteration. The fact-checking process at the New Yorker is exhaustive, and can span weeks. Every sentence, assertion, and piece of underlying sourcing get scrubbed by multiple independent pairs of eyes. This story had four fact-checkers working on it for the better part of a two week period, pulling very long hours. This is all brought together in a closing meeting where each sentence is revised and polished in a group. This is all done as additional information comes in—in fact, with these large-scale bodies of reporting, there is very often a snowball effect, where a lot comes in at the end.
- giwook 5mo agoAny plans to tackle any of the other folks who might be mentioned in the same sentence as Altman, like Darius Amodei?
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- yakkomajuri 5mo agoI think the comment was out of legitimate interest rather than weighing one against the other
- giwook 5mo ago^
- giwook 5mo agoHuh? It's a genuine question. The article is great and the writer did a fantastic job. Please try to give people the benefit of the doubt though I know it's hard in today's society.
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- felixgallo 5mo agoThis is brilliant work, guys. Did you get any pressure to soften or spike the story?
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoI won’t get into behind-the-scenes specifics here but I think you can imagine how pressurized this topic was and the amount of heat that tends to generate. I’m used to getting a lot of blowback and it’s never fun. I just hope the work is meticulous and fair enough, and that enough people see the benefits of that, that I get to continue to do it.
- Balgair 5mo agoHey, just want to say thanks for the piece and for all the hard work and effort you did to get this out there. I've published a bit here and there, and the actual writing is only ~50% of the work load (for me at least). So thanks for going through all the effort and pain to get it out, really appreciate all the work you do for me and the rest of Joe Public.
- trunch 5mo agoIf you want another story to run, I'd really love to see an investigation into how these different companies are convincing governements that the only path forward to win global dominance is through achieving 'agi' first and how much that contributes to the reckless acceleration of ai software and infrastructure development Also a good expose on accelerationists and e/accs and who among the elites fall in this group is direly needed as well
- AquinasCoder 5mo agoI am appreciative of your work on this piece. I'd love to see one that goes deeper into Dario Amodei. Perhaps even a series of profiles on the central figures of this AI era. Is this something you've thought about?
- sebmellen 5mo agoRonan Farrow on Hacker News. Now I’ve seen everything.
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoI’ve really appreciated how substantive and polite the discourse here is, overall!
- dang 5mo agoI'm a mod here and wanted to let you know 2 things: (1) I've marked your account with a beta feature that displays a colored line to the left of new comments (since you last viewed the page). It might help you keep track of this rather large thread.* (2) I'm sorry the post was downranked off the frontpage for a while this afternoon. A software penalty kicks in when the discussion seems overheated ("flamewar detector") but I turned this off as soon as I became aware of it. We make a point of moderating HN less when a story is YC-related (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20moderate%20%22less%2C%20not%20more%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...) but as this goes against standard internet axioms, people often assume the opposite. (* And yes, any reader who wants this is welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com to ask - I haven't turned it on for everyone because I'm worried it would slow the site down. Also, it's a bit buggy and not only have I not had time to fix it, I've forgotten what the bugs are.)
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- ta8903 5mo ago>beta feature that displays a colored line to the left of new comments (since you last viewed the page) Can't wait until this is released!
- nickthegreek 5mo agoIf you don't want to wait, the refined HN extension has had this feature for a long time, but it is device specific. https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
- _alternator_ 5mo agoDo you think the recent conflict between Anthropic and the Department of War, and the apparent bootlicking by OpenAI has fundamentally altered the public perception of OAI? Are they the baddies now in the general public opinion?
- Uptrenda 5mo agoDamn, just wanted to say reporters are scary... The amount of detail here is huge. You think of hackers as the ones good at doxing... Nah, its reporters.
- wyldfire 5mo agoDang, can you substantiate that this is actually Mr. Farrow like he claims? Or Mr Farrow can you post some evidence somewhere we can see?
- r721 5mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663895
- egonschiele 5mo agoJust wanted to say what an incredible person you are! Catch and Kill and the related reporting was awesome too!
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoThis is so appreciated, thank you! These stories can honestly take a lot out of me so thoughtful reactions mean a lot.
- cm2012 5mo agoI just spent a while reading the article. I really appreciate you writing it. In my case, it made me like Sam Altman a lot more. But I was only able to conclude this because of all the evidence you took the time to put together. It paints the picture of someone trying to do something very difficult in a rapidly changing environment and a lot of pressure, but still making the important choices and not shirking them.
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoInteresting to hear! While this hasn’t been a commonplace reaction, I think if I do my job right it should allow people to read the facts as they will, exactly like this. It’s strenuously designed to be fair and, where appropriate, even generous.
- littlexsparkee 5mo agoIn this industry, truly anything can be rationalized.
- aragonite 5mo agoI had a question about reporting conventions. In the paragraph where Altman is said to have told Murati that his allies were "going all out" to damage her reputation, the claim is attributed to "someone with knowledge of the conversation" but the attribution is tucked inconspicuously into the middle of the sentence (rather than say leading upfront ("According to someone with knowledge of the conversation, Altman...")) and Altman's non-recollection appears only parenthetically. As a reader, am I supposed to infer anything about evidentiary weight from these stylistic choices? When a single anonymous source's testimony is presented in a "declarative" narrative style like here (with the attribution in a less prominent position), should we read that as reflecting high confidence on your end (perhaps from additional corroboration not fully spelled out)? And does the fact that Altman’s non-recollection appears in parentheses carry any epistemic signal (e.g. that you assign it less evidentiary weight)? Or is that mostly a matter of (say) prose rhythm?
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- philip1209 5mo agoWe talk about Sam Altman a lot. At this point he has a Hollywood movie in post-production, a book ("The Optimist"), and a seemingly endless stream of profiles. It feels intellectually lazy to keep researching the same guy when the industry is moving beyond him. All evidence today suggests Anthropic is passing OpenAI in relative and absolute growth. So where's the critical reporting? The DOD coverage was framed around the Pentagon's decisions, not Anthropic's. And nobody seems interested in examining whether the company that branded itself as the ethical AI lab actually is one. That seems like a story worth writing.
- xvector 5mo agoNormies don't know what an "Anthropic" is. They use ChatGPT. Particularly sharp normies might know that ChatGPT is made by OpenAI, and the sharpest might know that Sam Altman is the CEO. Now, they may have heard the word "Anthropic" due to recent media coverage. But they don't know what it is and don't remember what it makes. The fact that all businesses use "Anthropic" is about as relevant to them as knowing the overseas shipping company for all the shit they buy off Amazon. So articles about OAI will always produce more revenue for the media, because it's related to what normies actually use day to day.
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoFor what it’s worth, the story, while focused on OpenAI, is not uncritical of Anthropic. It explores whether there is a wider race to the bottom in terms of safety, and erosion of even some of Anthropic’s commitments.
- intothemild 5mo agoI think you might be surprised that more and more Software Engineers are souring on Anthropic (the company) and the decisions the company has made recently. Not the whole drama with the US Government, but them locking down the usage of plans to their own tooling. That really rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, as ultimately one might have a favorite tool, then suddenly they are forced to use another tool.
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- stavros 5mo agoThere's a very minor typo in the article: > “Investors are, like, I need to know you’re gonna stick with this when times get hard,” Should be: > “Investors are like, I need to know you’re gonna stick with this when times get hard,”
- JumpCrisscross 5mo agoI'm not seeing a typo. Just a stylistic difference.
- SwellJoe 5mo agoPretty sure the correction is wrong, not merely a stylistic choice.
- stavros 5mo agoIn "that's, like, your opinion", "like" is an interjection, you can take it out and not change the meaning: "That's your opinion". In "investors were like, you need to grow", you're semi-quoting someone, and can't take it out: "investors were you need to grow".
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- tbagman 5mo agoWonderful work and writing, Ronan -- I'm appreciative of your careful balance between objective fact-finding and synthesis. For me, a big worry about AI is in its potential to further ease distorting or fabricating truth, while simultaneously reducing people's "load-bearing" intellectual skills in assessing what is true or trustworthy or good. You must be in the middle of this storm, given your profession and the investigations like this that you pursue. Do you see a path through this?
- jharohit 5mo agowhat model was used to create the visual at the top of the article?
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- euio757 5mo agoNice biography from Loopt to OpenAI. Why no mention of the Worldcoin cryptocurrency https://x.com/sama/status/1451203161029427208 https://x.com/sama/status/1451203161029427208 in this piece? Was there nothing interesting to report in that area?
- shinryuu 5mo agoIt was mentioned, but not by name.
- bck102 5mo agoHave you considered doing a piece on Aaron Swartz? Timnit Gebru? Michael O. Church?
- doctorpangloss 5mo agoIt could be titled "Hypergraphia"
- mplanchard 5mo agoHi Ronan, absolutely wild to see you here in the belly of the beast. I have not read the article yet, because I get the physical magazine and look forward to reading it analog. I therefore only have an inconsequential question. I love the New Yorker’s house style and editorial “voice,” and I have always been curious about the editing process. I enjoyed the recent exhibit at the NYPL, which had some marked up drafts with editor feedback and author comments. Did you find that your editors made significant changes to the voice of the piece, and/or do you find any aspects of their editing process particularly notable or unusual? Can’t wait to read this one, and hope the HN crowd treats you well.
- tsunamifury 5mo agoI know why the cantilevered pool statement is there and why you mentioned it. I’m sure you don’t know half of the totally fucked up things Sam did to get “revenge” for the slight of a leaking pool.
- worldwidewes 5mo agoNow I want to know more....
- tstrimple 5mo agoHard hitting journalism here. Is the person who lied for years to promote himself trustworthy? More news at 11!
- Lerc 5mo agoFrom time to time I have been accused of being an apologist for Sam Altman, but I have always tried to assess information based upon what it says instead of whether it matches an existing narrative. You list a number of distortions in your article which show the problem. If you are a good person, bad stories about you may be fake. If you are a bad person, bad stories about you may still be fake. My prima facie view on Altman has been that he presents as sincere. In interviews I have never seen him make a statement that I considered to be a deliberate untruth. I also recognise that people make claims about him go in all directions, and that I am not in a position to evaluate most of those claims. About the only truly agreed upon aspect has been how persuasive he is. I can definitely see a possibility of people feeling like they have been lied to if they experienced a degree of persuasion that they are unaccustomed to. If you agree to something that you feel like you didn't really feel like you would have, I can see people concluding that they have been lied to rather than accept that they had been intellectually beaten. In all such cases where an issue is contentious, you should ask yourself, what information would significantly change your views. If nothing could change your view, then it's a matter beyond reason. I think you will agree that there is no smoking gun in this article, and it is just an outlay of the allegations. Evaluating allegations becomes tricky because I think it becomes a character judgement of those making the claims. I have not heard a single person in all of this criticise Ilya Sutskever's character. If he were to make a statement to say that this article is an accurate representation of what he has experienced, it would go a long way. I think Paul Graham should make a statement, The things he has publicly claimed are at odds with what the article says he has privately claimed. I have no opinion if one or the other is true or if they can be reconciled but there seem to be contradictions that need to be addressed. While I do not have sources to hand (so I will not assert this as true but just claim it is my memory) I recall Sam Altman himself saying that he himself did not think he should have control over our future, and the board was supposed to protect against that, but since the 'blip' it was evident that another mechanism is required. I also recall hearing an interview where Helen Toner suggested that they effectively ambushed Altman because if he had time to respond to allegations he could have provided a reasonable explanation. It did not reflect well on her. I am a little put off by some of the language used in the article. Things like "Altman conveyed to Mira Murati" followed by "Altman does not recall the exchange" Why use a term such as 'conveyed' which might imply no exchange to recall? If a third party explained what they thought Altman thought. Mira Murati could reasonbly feel like the information has been conveyed while at the same time Altman has no experience of it to recall. Nevertheless it results in an impression of Altman being evasive. If the text contained "Altman told Mira Murati" then no such ambiguity would exist. "Later, the board was alarmed to learn that its C.E.O. had essentially appointed his own shadow board" Is this still talking about Brockman and Sutskever? I just can't see this as anything other than a claim he took advice from people he trusted. I assume those board members who were alarmed were not the ones he was trusting, because presumably the others didn't need to find out. The people he disagreed with still had votes so any claim of a 'shadow board' with power is nonsense, and if it is a condemnable offence, is the same not true of the alignment of board members who removed him. Josh Kushner apparently made a veiled threat to Muratti, the claim "Altman claims he was unaware of the call" casts him as evasive by stacking denial upon denial, but without any other indication that was undisclosed in the article, it would have been more surprising if he did know of the call. I also didn't know of the call because I am not those two people. The claim of sexual abuse says via Karen Hao "Annie suggested that memories of abuse were recovered during flashbacks in adulthood." To leave it at that without some discussion about the scientific opinion on previously unremembered events being recalled during a flashback seems to be journalistically irresponsible.
- f154hfds 5mo ago> in 2014, [Graham] had recruited Altman to be his successor as president. > [Graham's] judgment was based not on Altman’s track record, which was modest, but on his will to prevail, which Graham considered almost ungovernable. One thing I don't understand is why Paul Graham offered YC to Altman if he knew how slippery he was..
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- sonofhans 5mo agoPerhaps your question answers itself.
- cm2012 5mo agoPaul answers that here: https://x.com/paulg/status/2041363640499200353?s=20 https://x.com/paulg/status/2041363640499200353?s=20
- dmux 5mo agoThis is PG's response about Sam leaving YC. It says nothing about the original motivation of offering him the position at YC.
- artursapek 5mo agohey I loved that Ricky Gervais joke about you at the globes
- e40 5mo agoFor those that don’t know or remember: “Tonight isn’t just about the people in front of the camera. In this room are some of the most important TV and film executives in the world. People from every background. But they all have one thing in common: They’re all terrified of Ronan Farrow.”
- Uhhrrr 5mo agoThe last couple sentences tie things up really nicely.
- ronanfarrow 5mo agoAppreciate this. I thought deeply about that and took a lot of time, when we had little of it to go around, iterating and shaping it. (Including talking to computer scientists to make sure I sounded as not-dopey as possible on the technical side!)
- gib444 5mo agoAs someone on a budget, how can I pay for good journalism when it so spread out across various (expensive) outlets?
- input_sh 5mo agoPaying for 1 is doing more than paying for 0. It's not your responsibility to fund for every single one, just find the one you like the most and subscribe to that one.
- antirealist 5mo agoHi Ronan. TCatK is a phenomenal book, not only in exposing the wrongdoing of powerful people, but also in presenting the meta-issue of how hard it was to get the word out, and you handled it all with nuance. You're about as close as I have to a personal hero. Long time HN lurker, made an account just to say that :)
- Akuehne 5mo agoGreat article. Thank you for fielding questions. And please don't stop, your work is great.
- logicallee 5mo ago[flagged]
- saberience 5mo agoThe article is paywalled, where can we read it?
- Bombthecat 5mo agoDo we have a choice?
- VladVladikoff 5mo agoPlease ask The New Yorker to extend some of their very generous subscription sale prices to Canada, I would subscribe to print if even a single sale applied to us, but all the sales are always USA only.
- AIorNot 5mo agoAs bad as altman might be he’s just another sociopathic Tech Bro I’m far more concerned with the 25 million dollar personal bribe OpenAI president Greg Brockman gave Donald Trump for his reelection - the fact that a tech company can influence the outcome of an election directly is evil Far more evil than Altmans shenanigans
- trinsic2 5mo agoExactly. In fact I'd say that everything that is said about Altman is a misdirection from that one point. People want to focus on scape goats rather than systemic problems
- popalchemist 5mo agoHow do you feel about the title of your article? I assume an editor chose it. Clearly he's straight up evil; between tanking the global economy, constantly lying, and raping his 3 year old sister, it feels really disingenuous to me to frame this as an open question.
- noodlebreak 5mo agoSeems a bit conspiracy theorist to me
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