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Because he's the former president of YC. One of the powerful people you'd be pissing of by doing this is Sam Altman.

Don’t think the former CEO of GitHub is going to be that alarmed about upsetting Sam Altman. You may be seeing their decision making through the lens of a no-name founder applying to YC for their first cheque.

Can he like...hack my HN account aha? That would be the extent of my concern or fear of him

Well he could have you shadowbanned on every platform except Onlyfans and Pornhub.

How would that benefit him other than discrediting his sister? She's not 1000% credible already in my view based on the tenor of her claims but I'm open to correction.

Even federated platforms, or private ones that I run on my own? How does that work? Please be precise when you say "every".

Defederate me harder, Altman

How so? Yallenge accepted

Edit: moar elaboration please

This is what his sister said, they are just trolling I think.

Yep, I'm trolling. Thought it was obvious, but apparently not.

wat

His sister has been reported to say that Sam Altman banned her from every platform except those two. It's been reported she might struggle with mental issues, though who knows what happened. So I'm pretty sure whoever said that was just trolling.

How the hell does that work? Why can't she use a VPN and not use her real identity like the rest of us? Does she insist on assuming her rightful place as an Altman?

Edit: she seriously said that re:Pornhub?! What is her association with porn and why would she bring that up?

Edit: unless the words came from her mouth, I wouldn't blow it up any further

I don't know any of these people, just came across this stuff in the last couple of days and wanted to flag the possible troll, but here you go: https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/170997828542437802...

Its weird cuz he's gay so its duly disturbing if they shared in that discovery and also talked to Mom and Dad about it. This whole situstion sounds like it may have sufficient legs to moonlight as an Aristocrats joke

Is there any such thing as like a reverse class action suit but like from one-to-many like her context would sort of fit in? Can one person do like an omnibus lawsuit against a bunch of companies for a common basis? That would very legal and very cool!

How does that fit in with the fact he's gay? That timeline better be tight and also that's kind of a not great thing for her. Like that's how they both discovered he was gay?

I think the implication is that he could “talk to his friends”, more than doing things directly.

Ya but that still ain't gonna tell them anything? Who uses "real" credentials anymore?

Also, why doesn't she just hire a lawyer to help her sign up ?

Sounds like an easy way to get off of social media!

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I'd be more worried that all your employees don't want you there, and you'll be in for a lot of cold shoulder meetings every day. Doesn't sound like fun.

The "powerful" people outside, matter a lot less. No matter what you do, if you're influential, about half the powerful will hate you and half will love you.

Its like Mr. Burns relying on the competing diseases to bottleneck his death

What does YC have to do with OpenAI?

Appeal to hallucinated authority

Unlike my objection to the use of the concept of hullucination in relation to the output of LLMs, I concur here!

Sam Altman was President of YC and CEO of OpenAI.

And...?

Are you trolling? I answered your question in the clearest way I could think to.

I have no idea what the actual implications are of the relation. But it's there and it's suggested his network of friends from YC could bolster his position with OpenAI. No idea if that's true, but it's not like it is so strange a notion that it merits "playing dumb" like you're doing.

It just seems like such a weird claim. Like, does she have receipts to prove all these platforms are denying her? It just seems to be stretching credulity and I can't see how its possible for them to get this granular about it. I dunno, she needs to substantiate these things.

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