I am starting to understand why these luminaries warn us about a future that is dominated by a solitary superintelligence, self-obsessed and uninterested in humanity.
Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
21–30 of 36 posts
Re: Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
#22TLDR - after 6 years his stock has vested and he doesn’t want to deal with the lack of safety investment anymore.
I never get it when people say something like "they're leaving because their stock vested". Every big tech employee I know gets refresher stocks every year. Except for the first 2 years at some companies (looking at you Amazon), every year you are vesting significant stock, and whenever you leave, you're walking away from at least 3 years unvested. 4 years is like 5 which is like 6
Some companies are notoriously cheap about refreshers, Salesforce being one famous example.
Re: Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
#23[flagged]
Why do you think it has to be narcissism when there are other valid reasons to write a blog post after leaving?
OpenAI seems to always be in the public eye for one or the other reasons and after the CEO firing episode, any staff departure(including policy researchers) can/will be speculated in the media as a fallout with management if they remain silent.
May be they just want to preempt any speculations.
Re: Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
#24How is someone so young and general in skill (he doesn't seem to be a technical person or coder) have the ability to be "...advising OpenAI executives and the OpenAI board on AGI readiness"?
And why the need for such a long blog post, in a company which he doesn't play a significant role?
Re: Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
#25How is someone so young and general in skill (he doesn't seem to be a technical person or coder) have the ability to be "...advising OpenAI executives and the OpenAI board on AGI readiness"? And why the need for such a long blog post, in a company which he doesn't play a significant role?
Career marketing
Re: Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
#26How is someone so young and general in skill (he doesn't seem to be a technical person or coder) have the ability to be "...advising OpenAI executives and the OpenAI board on AGI readiness"? And why the need for such a long blog post, in a company which he doesn't play a significant role?
Have you seen LessWrong?
Long, boring, navel-gazing blog posts is all they know how to do, yet they think they're the main character of the story.
Re: Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
#27I am starting to understand why these luminaries warn us about a future that is dominated by a solitary superintelligence, self-obsessed and uninterested in humanity.
Self-projection?
Re: Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
#28How is someone so young and general in skill (he doesn't seem to be a technical person or coder) have the ability to be "...advising OpenAI executives and the OpenAI board on AGI readiness"? And why the need for such a long blog post, in a company which he doesn't play a significant role?
I believe this field is so new that anyone with just a year or two of experience can be considered an expert.
Re: Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
#29[flagged]
Not necessarily, I don't feel, but close. There was a recent blog about an epidemic of Neotoddlerism that explained that four attributes that we have as children and should grow out of contribute to cluster B personality disorders: - Attention seeking - Entitlement - Grandiosity - Impulsivity This seems like just attention seeking, possibly with grandiosity but I don't know the author so I don't know.
Re: Why I'm leaving OpenAI and what I'm doing next
#30[flagged]
Have you been on LinkedIn recently? Everyone now writes a long sob story to the public about why they're leaving as if everyone else cares or believe what you're saying. These guy think they're a lot more important anf have more clout so they're making it a blog post instead.
Leaving or joining. I hate LinkedIn