OpenAI, Harry Potter Fanfic, and Hackers Who Gamble

Well that was a lot of drama in the world of OpenAI. Fear not, we have a unique angle on how the person in the running to be OpenAI's new CEO was a character in a Harry Potter fanfic that was written deliberately as a recruiting tool to the effective altruist movement. That's definitely a sentence. After the break Sam talks about how Twitter is pushing sex workers into a black hole, then in the subscribers-only section Joseph explains how he found that SIM swappers are gambling stolen Bitcoin at online casinos.

• New OpenAI CEO Was a Character in a Harry Potter Fanfic That's Wildly Popular With Effective Altruists
• Elon Musk Is Making His Advertising Crisis a Problem for Sex Workers
• Hackers Use Online Casinos to Gamble Mountains of Cash They Steal from Victims

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