2023_11_27.md

Oxide and Friends: November 27th, 2023

OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl

We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from November 27th, 2023.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by variously special guests Steve Tuck and Chuck McManis.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Hacker News: OpenAPI's board has fired Sam Altman

• Employee Letter to OpenAI's Board

• Who Controls OpenAI? by Matt Levine, the G.O.A.T.

• Axios: Who is Larry Summers, the controversial pick to join OpenAI's board

• Mike Olsen: What is a Board of Directors For?

• Fermat's Last Theorem (aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ only possible for n = 1 or n = 2)

  I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain. - Fermat

  

• IBM and the Holocaust

• Topic

• [@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's Conundrum

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