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He's part of the EA community which Moskovitz funded. He was even named in Yudkowsky's warcrime of a Harry Potter fanfic [0][1]

[0] - https://www.404media.co/new-openai-ceo-emmett-shear-was-mino...

[1] - https://hpmor.com/chapter/104?ref=404media.co



Silicon Valley lore is way too complex at this point; needs a reboot. I'd rather start One Piece from scratch.


We need a wiki indeed.


You're posting on it.


https://silicon-valley.fandom.com/ is already taken, unfortunately.


Why is Yudkowsky's HPMOR a "warcrime"?


I find it really good but if you don't like rationality/EY it's really easy to latch on as something to hate (overly smart fanfic does sound cringe on the face of it).


Also it's a Harry Potter fanfic.

That they paid $28k to distribute to others.


I'm sure the return on that investment was very large in terms of donations.


It's great - there's just a group on HN that think it's status-y to hate on it.


Ehhhh it was fine when I read it as a teenager but the writing quality alone (ignoring the content) certainly did not age well decade+ later




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