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Posted by koolba 11/19/2025

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board(www.cnbc.com)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/technology/larry-summers-..., https://archive.ph/ASfq6
334 points | 377 commentspage 4
jameslk 11/20/2025|
Why is this on the front page of HN other than the mention of OpenAI? The article barely even mentions how this is related to OpenAI. What’s notable about this event other than this person is disliked by many?
randycupertino 11/20/2025||
It's newsworthy because he's a prominent economic leader who has been at the center of U.S. economic policy, elite academia, and global finance for decades. He's held almost every marquee job an economist can have, Treasury Secretary under Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council under Obama, Chief economist of world bank, president of Harvard, connected at IMF and an influential voice on inflation, interest rates, fiscal policy, and banking regulations. He's a trusted voice in the VC world, was on the board of Square, an advisor at A16z/Andreessen Horowitz and involved in crypto/blockchain as an advisor to one of the major crypto VCs.
jameslk 11/20/2025||
Thank you for the context! I genuinely didn’t know anything about this person until recently
Mon0t0n 11/20/2025||
lmao computer programmer failing to understand social relations
einpoklum 11/19/2025||
On the contrary, he's the perfect man to be on OpenAI's board; before and after these extra revelations.
lordnacho 11/20/2025|
If there's one big surprise in my adult life, as in, a thing I didn't expect when I was a kid, it was the seemingly pervasive extent of sexual exploitation done by powerful men, and the fact they they seem to all help each other in doing this.

I always thought that powerful guys got laid without really having to force anyone to sleep with them. You know, the stereotypical "be confident, look prosperous and healthy" and women will be attracted to you. The weird thing is, I think that actually does work! Even if you're not famous, having a few of those qualities has seemed to work for most guys I know.

So why are there so many famous guys who end up getting caught forcing themselves on multiple people? If you look at how few cases end up going to trial, there must be even more guys who are getting away with it. Not only that, the extent of the numbers. A guy like Weinstein must have been a full-time sex criminal. Constant, multiple times a day, like a busy salesman who meets clients three times a day. I don't want to make a joke of something so serious, but don't you get enough? Isn't it tiring and tedious?

The other side of this is the club. How can it be that they all seem to know each other? Most people tend to keep their sex lives private. If you're committing a crime, AND you're a public person, why would you find other people to do that with? It that part of the power trip?

AlecSchueler 11/20/2025|
I think the scarier thing is that this is actually happening in all walks of life, but it only gets widely publicised when it concerns rich, powerful or famous men.

The thing that surprised me most growing up was learning how inevitable sexual assault is for basically all women. I've never been close to any woman who couldn't tell me multiple stories of being harassed, assaulted or coerced.