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darkwater 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI r...

> That parallels something Putin did in 2020. Putin called in the top two dozen oligarchs, and told them "Stay out of politics and your wealth won’t be touched.

> Khodorkovsky [...] was arrested in 2003

Something doesn't square here

silvaring 3 months ago | [–]

Its a typo, the article says it happened in the summer of 2000.

Animats 3 months ago | | [–]

Right re 2000.

richrichardsson 3 months ago | | [–]

Could just be a muscle-memory typo. Much more likely to be typing 2020 these days than 2002.

shakna 3 months ago | [–]

It was in 2000 [0]

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how...

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