I'm not necessarily saying they're wrong, but there's really no way to put out a release like this without a "history is written by the victors" vibe coming across.
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#22Isn't it generally kind of weird for the CEO to also sit on the board?
For founders this is common.
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#23Since https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sam-altman-to-return... is hardwalled, we need to find an alternate source. I've put a stub article up there for the moment. Is there a better one? theinformation.com used to open specific articles for HN readers on request*, but eventually stopped answering our emails. * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
You could use the OpenAI announcement: https://openai.com/blog/review-completed-altman-brockman-to-...
Yep, and annoyingly there's multiple blog posts flying around now https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-new-members-to-boar...
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#24Total victory for sama, it seems. The company is his to run. Let’s hope he is a good steward of our emerging new world.
Is that sarcasm?
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#26Isn't it generally kind of weird for the CEO to also sit on the board?
It is actually very common, despite the conflicts of interest.
eg., Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Mary Barra, Jamie Dimon, Mark Zuckerberg
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#27The conclusion just raises further questions on why the coup happened, other than a "consequence of a breakdown in the relationship and loss of trust between the prior Board and Mr. Altman".
The answer is that Altman tried to get the Board removed, the Board found out and snap fired him, which scared the shit out of Microsoft. The prior and new Boards both cannot make the allegation that Altman tried to commit a corporate coup, albeit for different reasons[0], so we're never going to get official confirmation of anything.
My prediction is that Altman will, unmoored from any sort of accountability, wind up fucking shit up like every god damned SV founder, get fired, and then OpenAI will wind up being eaten by Microsoft for a song.
[0] Old board: Potential defamation litigation, new board: they were literally put in there by Altman to not threaten him
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#28> reviewed more than 30,000 documents
As somebody completely ignorant of the inner workings of the legal trade, can somebody explain what this means? Does this mean a group of informed humans reviewed 30k docs? Does this mean 30k docs were grep’d for keywords? Somewhere in between?
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#30> The company will also announce the appointment of three new directors, Sue Desmond-Hellmann, a former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, a former president of Sony Entertainment, and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart, the Information said. This selection of directors seems...random? Is there a business reason for these directors? (aside from the obvious YC link with Instacart)
Non profit / social focus person, media and entertainment person (that NYT suit might be followed by other m&e companies), direct to consumer + "real world digitalization" person.
Exactly. It's not random, it's revealing. You can see them starting to aim towards their first commercial bets beyond search and developer tools while still paying lip service to the safety cult.