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Smart people can do dumb things. Their LinkedIn profile looks typical for an OpenAI engineer.

We also don’t know if this person did it under duress.

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>We also don’t know if this person did it under duress.

He was a Saudi national, so that is a possibility

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If you think about it that’s more likely than any other explanation.
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50% is looking and sounding the part, the other 50% is having a good university on your resume / good networking.
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Yeah that. After three bad experiences in a row they are no hire status.

There’s plenty of better people out there who just aren’t interested in that sort of stuff.

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  >how does someone this dumb get hired
Using AI to pass the interview of course! I wish I was joking...

It's AI inbreeding all the way down.

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Probably went to a prestigious university or had connections.
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i.e. rich or rich
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Technical skill and common sense/street smarts are usually inversely related.
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I could def espionage better. Does that qualify me to work at OpenAI?
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You might want to have a seat first if you want this explained.
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