Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant and Kryptonite/Garlic to Vampires
Transparency (sometimes described by words like "Sunlight" or "Truth") is paramount
Earlier this year we wrote several articles explaining that we do our best at transparency whilst at the same time fully respecting court processes (for instance, we do not share court-related documents, not until the Court approaches the request to document facts and approves our request, which 1.5 years ago a local lawyer told me was not just doable but very much encouraged in my case, which is extremely unjust and therefore deserves public scrutiny).
The "other side" is extremely upset that I write about what they did to me. They went through the trouble of writing more letters than I can recall specifically demanding that I stop or requesting removal of articles. They even wrote letters to my lawyer, as they hoped he'd manage to convince me to stop.
In works of fiction, "Kryptonite" is material that helps resist great power, notably the omnipotence of Superman. Assassins aren't Supermen, they feeble men on a power/ego trip. I say "men" because women keep quitting the firm, which works for misogynists against women.
"Kryptonite" is how we deal with cases that should never have been filed in the first place and are simply used to bully us, even when there is a death in the family.
They say that the solution to efforts to suppress information is to repeat and expand upon this information. That's why we'll be spending this month writing about UEFI on an almost daily basis; it'll likely carry on well into October.
David Gerard, who left a ton of comments in this site, recently wrote that "OpenAI is using legal threats to harass its critics" and to quote:
OpenAI has found a new way to suck: harassing its critics with spurious legal threats and subpoenas!The paper-thin justification for this is that OpenAI thinks anyone hampering it in any way from converting from a weird charity into a for-profit company must be on the take from Elon Musk. Or Mark Zuckerberg, or Dustin Moskovitz of OpenPhilanthropy. [SF Standard, archive]
Elon Musk sued OpenAI over its plan to convert into a for-profit. Encode is a small AI safety organisation — it got some money from OpenPhil, but it seems to deal in actual safety — that filed an amicus brief in the case.
Further down he said:
I doubt OpenAI is literally inspired by Scientology. I think they’re odious enough they think that way all by themselves.I suspect the legal harassment initiative comes from Altman personally, because anyone else should have found it obvious that when a widely hated rich arsehole pulls this sort of garbage, the first reaction is a massive backlash.
We know how to respond to abusive organisations harassing their critics. You go louder. Copies of everything, make sure the world knows all about it. We learnt that one in the nineties and it still holds.
Indeed. Below is another thing Altman would rather people not see.
To quote: "Ann Altman, the younger sister of OpenAI’s chief executive and founder, Sam Altman, filed a lawsuit in a Missouri federal court on Monday accusing him of sexually abusing her when she was a minor." (i.e. alleged incest and pedophilia)
It's not just some tweet, there's a law firm backing this:
Scam Altman skips an opportunity to defend himself when asked by the Journal of Record:
He didn't even deny that to the reporter. Like Bill Epsteingate, he talks back via proxies (carefully-worded statements to which he can later refer or even say, "I didn't say that, someone else did"). █