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Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

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Re: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

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post #788

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"Hi this is Karen from HR. Is there a reason you didn't sign the loyalty oath on Tuesday of last week? I'm just checking in to make sure everything is okay with you at Altruistic Capital Inc."

People make up stupid answers to avoid answering.

Right and it's clear they are.

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post #179

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Yeah it's pretty wild that more people don't talk about that given how much time people spend gossiping about him like he was a tabloid celebrity.

I have no horse in this race but I’m glad that - for once - people aren’t taking claims with absolutely no evidence seriously. That’s no way to function as a society. For all we know she could be jealous, have mental issues, or have a different bone to pick with him and thought that’d be the best way to hurt him. If I had his money I could see some of my own relatives doing similar things after being denied handouts,…

It's okay to talk about things and people.

Re: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

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post #746

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> all the value of the company can walk away if they don't like it They really can't, because a majority of their compensation is in now-unreasonable amounts of OpenAI equity (because it was worth much less when it was granted). If employees decided to walk away, rendering their vested equity worthless, they wouldn't get anywhere near the same value of, say, Microsoft equity as a signing bonus to make it worth. Any s…

> They really can't, because a majority of their compensation is in now-unreasonable amounts of OpenAI equity (because it was worth much less when it was granted). If employees decided to walk away, rendering their vested equity worthless, they wouldn't get anywhere near the same value of, say, Microsoft equity as a signing bonus to make it worth. The problem with this is that the board was basically threatening to a…

I guess the takeaway is you can’t give equity to employees and also expect them to operate in a way that reflects the charter of a non-for-profit governing board.

Re: Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting

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post #778

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You mean pass something like that around? No. I’d seriously consider quitting on the spot if my boss at any place I’ve worked in the past asked me to sign something like that. Not signing isn’t quite the same thing as quitting, but there’s a clear implication not doing so would seriously damage any long term prospects at the company.

Did anyone ask them to sign?

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