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Yeah he should have just stuck a post it note with the words “do not remove” and nobody would have noticed
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IT would have noticed next time they had to plug something into the TV. Whether they cared enough to figure out what it was is a different story.
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should have enclosed it in a shell to look like a crappy USB A to thunderbolt adapter that some exec bought at an airport kiosk and left behind in the tv
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Yeah people are leaving stuff like that in conference room TVs all the time. Adapters, HDMI cables, etc.
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> And I also wonder what the hiring process was like to hire someone with that mental frame.

Remember, this is only the company responsible for potentially building and aligning AGI. No need to be setting high expectations toward their sandboxing or hiring capabilities.

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The bar @ OAI is surprisingly low (watch a few minutes of their video presentations) - I've concluded it has something to do w how their recruiters define 'AI Native' (who assign their own meaning to meaninglessness of it), resulting in higher aggregate brain atrophy (hard to ignore once you notice it)
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> And I also wonder what the hiring process was like to hire someone with that mental frame.

What, we’re supposed to vet everyone we network with at orgies now?

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Further evidence the hiring process is orthogonal to competence.
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I also wonder what this guy was paid by those AI labs...
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If it were _used_ toilet paper, nobody would have touched it.
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