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Post by dhruvdh »

abraxas wrote: post #104
sesutton wrote: post #75

Ilya posted this on Twitter: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company." https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028

Trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. I seriously doubt this will work out for him. He has to be the smartest stupid person that the world has seen.

At least he consistently works towards whatever he currently believes in. Though he could work on consistency in beliefs.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Post by throwaway4good »

throwaway4good wrote: post #132

Microsoft is nothing without its people?

Maybe the employees of OpenAI should stop a second and think about their privileges as rock stars in a super hyped startup before they bail for a job in a corporation where everything and everyone is setup to be replaceable.

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Post by thundergolfer »

ignoramous wrote: post #149
georgehill wrote: post #3

> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?

The signatories want Bret Taylor and Will Hurd running the new Board, apparently. > We will take this step imminently, unless all current board members resign, and the board appoints two new lead independent directors, such as Bret Taylor and Will Hurd, and reinstates Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.

Googling Will Hurd only shows up a Republican politician with a history at the CIA. Is that the right guy? Can't be.

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Post by lazide »

radres wrote: post #122
jackcosgrove wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never assume someone is winning a game of 5D chess when someone else could just be losing a game of checkers.

what does that even mean?

OpenAI may just be a couple having an angry fight, and M$ is just the neighbor with cash happy to buy all the stuff the angry wife is throwing out for pennies on the dollar.

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Post by soderfoo »

georgehill wrote: post #3

> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?

Watching all this drama unfold in the public is unprecedented.

I guess it makes sense. There has never been a company like OpenAI, in terms or governance and product, so I guess it makes sense that their drama leads us in to unchartered territory.

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Post by empath-nirvana »

jmyeet wrote: post #79

I said this on Friday: the board should be fired in its entirety. Not because the firing was unjustified--we have know real knowledge of that--but because of how it was handled. If you fire your founder CEO you need to be on top of messaging. Your major customers can't be surprised. There should've been an immediate all hands at the company. The interim or new CEO should be prepared. The company's communications team…

There's no one to fire the board. They're not accountable to anyone but themselves. They can burn down the whole company if they like.

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Post by bertil »

abraxas wrote: post #104
sesutton wrote: post #75

Ilya posted this on Twitter: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company." https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028

Trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. I seriously doubt this will work out for him. He has to be the smartest stupid person that the world has seen.

Ilya is hard to replace, and no one thinks of him as a political animal. He's a researcher first and foremost. I don't think he needs anything more than being contrite for a single decision made during a heated meeting. Sam Altman and the rest of the leadership team haven't got where they are by holding petty grudges.

He doesn't owe us, the public, anything, but I would love to understand his point of view during the whole thing. I really appreciate how he is careful with words and thorough when exposing his reasoning.

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Post by lysecret »

georgehill wrote: post #3

> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?

That settles it it has to be the AGI orchestrating it all.
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