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Google co-founder Sergey Brin is coming out as Republican, per NYT The reporting follows Brin's ambitious efforts to kill the California wealth tax, elect a Republican to California governor, and move his residency out of California. He finally expressed his sentiment in a comment to NYT: "I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don't want California to end up in the same place."

🚨 Elon Musk has arrived in court for day 2 of the OpenAI trial Altman and Brockman stole the non-profit He’s here to undo the theft ITS HAPPENING

I just really, really hate the concept of capitalism. I don’t want to work my job every day. I want to make art. I want to be in my garden. I want to feel something.

Scam Altman has a incredible track record for being a con artist I don't think anyone has a "former ally turned enemy" list this big with directly with people he worked with A massive new 18-month investigation dropped, revealing the full list of people who worked directly with Sam Altman and now openly say they don’t trust him - they call him a liar, manipulator, scam artist, and worse These are his co-founders, board members, top executives, and biggest partners. Not random haters: • Elon Musk (OpenAI co-founder) ➝ Betrayed the original nonprofit, open & safe AI mission and turned it into a closed profit machine What he says: Calls him "Scam Altman" and “Sam Altman lies as easily as he breathes” • Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI co-founder & former Chief Scientist) Why: Discovered Sam repeatedly lied about safety protocols and bypassed board oversight. What he says/did: Compiled 70+ pages of memos, Slack messages, and evidence proving Sam’s lies → helped fire him. Said he didn’t think “Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button for AGI” • Dario Amodei (former OpenAI President, now Anthropic CEO) Why: Left because of Sam’s leadership and broken safety promises What he says: “The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself.” Called the company under Sam "mendacious” (full of lies) and compared it to Big Tobacco knowingly selling something dangerous. Accused him of a clear “pattern of behavior” • Helen Toner (former OpenAI Board Member) Why: Sam made it impossible for the board to do its job through constant deception What she says: He was “outright lying to the board” and created a “toxic atmosphere” of psychological pressure • Tasha McCauley (former OpenAI Board Member) Why: Complete loss of trust after years of the same behavior What she says: Senior leaders reported Sam cultivated a “toxic culture of lying” • Jan Leike (former Superalignment co-lead) Why: Sam deprioritized real safety work for shiny products What he says: Resigned publicly saying he “lost confidence” in OpenAI leadership and that the company was “losing its way” on alignment • Mira Murati (former CTO - one of Sam’s closest longtime collaborators) Why: Lost all confidence in his leadership as they approached AGI What she says: Told insiders “I don’t feel comfortable about Sam leading us to AGI” and said his playbook is to say whatever he needs to get what he wants, and if that fails, destroy your credibility • Microsoft executives (including major tensions with CEO Satya Nadella) Why: Felt constantly misled on deals and partnerships What they say: A senior exec warned he could be remembered as a “Bernie Madoff or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer” • Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder - Sam was YC President) Why: Long pattern of deception during his time running YC What he says: Privately told YC colleagues, “Sam had been lying to us all the time" • Loopt board & early employees (Sam’s first startup) Why: History of chaotic and deceptive behavior What they did: Employees went to the board twice trying to get him fired over lack of honesty and shady behavior These are his co-founders, board members, closest executives, and major partners who actually worked with him all say the exact same things - chronic lying, manipulation, broken trust, toxic culture, scam & deception

Jimmy Kimmel: Stephen Miller is “so racist. Stephen Miller puts the ‘cist’ in white supremacist. He’s like if baby Hitler traveled in time to kill us.”

He is “Scam Altman”. Why? Because the pattern is obvious. • Founded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit “for humanity” — Elon left in 2018 when it started going closed and profit-first. Now it’s basically a Microsoft subsidiary chasing billions while pretending it’s still open. • In 2023 the entire board fired him. Their words: “not consistently candid in his communications.” That’s corporate for “we can’t trust a word he says.” • Ilya Sutskever compiled 70 pages of internal docs — Slack messages, HR records — and the first line was “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of… Lying.” • He lied to the board about safety reviews. Told them GPT-4 features were approved — they weren’t. Pushed product launches without proper checks. • Promised safety teams huge compute for alignment — they got scraps while the money went to shiny products. Top safety people quit saying the company went “off the rails.” • This isn’t new. Got pushed out of his first startup for “deceptive and chaotic behavior.” Same story at Y Combinator. • Uses harsh NDAs to silence ex-employees. Pits people against each other. Says whatever keeps him in power. The guy now running OpenAI has a long, documented history of not being straight with the people who are supposed to watch him. That’s why “Scam Altman” sticks. The New Yorker piece just put receipts on what Elon’s been saying for years. Read the article if you can. The stakes are too high for anything less than total honesty at the top.

So like, the world I am exposed to has all the folks building with agents at the frontier … building agents at the frontier. Is this what it was like with like, the invention of “higher level languages” like C? Was everyone building compilers?

The Musk v. OpenAI trial starts today After all these years of delays, I really hope we finally see justice. No one should be allowed to loot a charity like that and walk away with billions while abandoning the original mission for humanity. Praying for a fair jury 🤍