His last sentence is the main hint. Disagreement over dangers of AGI discoveries and how to handle I’d guess.
No one actually believes in that baloney, not enough to fire the CEO over anyway.
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably Sam recused himself so not necessarily
Why would he recuse himself? Sam seemed happy to work at OpenAI. FWIW, radio silence from Ilya on twitter https://twitter.com/ilyasut
Because it's a conflict of interest - a CEO should absolutely recuse themselves from a vote on whether they should be removed. If a CEO refused to do so, the board should adjourn and reconvene without the CEO present.
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#73This suggests that a real schism is occurring at OpenAI. I anticipate hearing of two different philosophies at play.
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#74Hope they fire the person that forced verified phone numbers on new accounts.
And the person who decided that the settings (disable usage for training data) and (save prompts) can't be individually controlled. Also that the default is that your data is used for training purposes. Both are clear indications that privacy was no importance to them.
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#75Finally some non-Elon-related drama in tech happening.
Elon co-founded OpenAI. So, this isn’t exactly non-Elon.
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#76This suggests that Greg Brockman wasn't in the board meeting that made the decision, and only "learned the news" that he was off the board the same way the rest of us did.
He was chairman of the board, no? surely he was in the meeting? More likely it's some kind of schism and he was on Sam's side.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
The board does and they are not supposed to have a financial stake in the non-profit. Usually they just vote their friends on. Welcome to the loony tunes that is nonprofit management. Clearly Microsoft staked its whole product roadmap on 4 random people with no financial skin in the game.
> Usually they just vote their friends on You actually think that for-profit corporate boards are significantly different, especially in the startup/early IPO phase?
But those are people who have some skin in the game right? And shareholders can change the board structure right?
Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI
#78This suggests that Greg Brockman wasn't in the board meeting that made the decision, and only "learned the news" that he was off the board the same way the rest of us did.
Well, yeah, he wouldn't be allowed to participate in deliberation about his own removal.
wait...isn't "the decision" referred to in the parent comment about the removal of Altman?
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#80This all seems so weird, and the list of Board members doesn't make this any easier to understand. Apart from the 3 insiders, there are 3 other board members. 2 of them seem complete no names and might not qualify for any important corporate board. In a for profit shareholders in theory control the board, in a non profit I am not even sure of who really has control over things.
Maybe non-profits are just frontends of some three letter agencies :)