OpenAI's Boardroom Purge: A Historical Parody
Description
A screenshot of a tweet from user Mike Bird (@Birdyword) with the text 'The last week in OpenAI history'. Below the text is a three-panel meme using a famous set of historically altered black-and-white photographs of Joseph Stalin. In the top panel, Stalin is seen walking by a canal with three other Soviet officials. In the middle panel, one official (Nikolai Yezhov) has been visibly doctored out of the image. The bottom panel shows a further altered version where the remaining two officials have also been removed, leaving Stalin walking alone. This meme format, known as 'Stalin's Disappearing Commissars,' uses the historical reality of political purges and photographic censorship as a metaphor. The technical context is the intense and chaotic leadership crisis at OpenAI in November 2023, where CEO Sam Altman was abruptly fired by the board, followed by other key figures resigning or being removed. The meme darkly jokes that the rapid succession of firings and departures at the AI company resembled the ruthless political purges of Soviet Russia, where former allies were 'erased' from the official record
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The OpenAI board's original model was clearly overfitted on 'aligning AGI.' The fine-tuning phase involved removing conflicting parameters, also known as the CEO and the President
OpenAI basically ran `git rebase --interactive --drop=director && git push --force` on its org chart - CI still green, morale not so much
When your board meetings have higher turnover than a Node.js project's package-lock.json, you know it's time to implement version control on your C-suite - though unlike git revert, you can't just cherry-pick your CEO back from Microsoft after force-pushing him out
When your company's leadership changes happen so fast that even your git history can't keep up with who's been force-pushed out of main. At least Stalin had to wait for the photo lab - OpenAI's board operates at O(log n) purge complexity. The real question: did they use DALL-E to generate the 'after' photos, or is this just aggressive dependency pruning in the executive package.json?
OpenAI ran git filter-repo on the org chart and force-pushed to main - CI passed because the required reviewers were removed too
OpenAI's C-suite: overfitting to drama while catastrophically underfitting on stability
OpenAI ran an org-level git filter-repo on the board; turns out trust and governance aren’t squashable - force-pushing history just compounds merge debt
Man appears and vanishes. Comment deleted
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai Comment deleted
Minus 1 dictator 🥳👏 Comment deleted
Does anyone know any pyhon libraries to get GPU tempreture ? Comment deleted
first and maybe dumbest way comes to mind is to make some specific nvidia-smi request and parse result Comment deleted
I tried it but couldn't get the tempeh temporary temperature Comment deleted
Use a real programming language Comment deleted
Also what OS are you on? Windows? Linux? MacOS? Comment deleted
Windows Comment deleted
Ffs just use HWMonitor or smth Comment deleted
Fucking msi afterburner doesn't show gpu temperature so I decided to write my own Comment deleted
But if it doesn’t then it means WMI wont list it as such. Can you see it in task manager? Comment deleted
Yeah I can. Tadk manager shows temperature. gputil also shows it but the problem is with msi afterburner Comment deleted
you need this ,,,, think a way put the digital display on your screen. no need python! Comment deleted
When I see somebody using python: https://youtube.com/shorts/vxjkQ2fNcE8 Comment deleted
Ah yes the linux way Comment deleted
Rather than gputil Comment deleted
Gputil shows it but that mf doesn't Comment deleted