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Quote tweets by main participants: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727206691262099616 https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727206691262099616 (+ follow-up https:/

• ryzvonusef 3y ago
  also satya https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1727207661547233721 https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1727207661547233721
• 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
  Emmett https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1727210329560756598 https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1727210329560756598
  • 303space 3y ago
    Genuinely curious - what’s the comp package like for 72 hours of interim CEOing a 80b company?
    • zx8080 3y ago
      Nothing maybe?
    • granzymes 3y ago
      Bragging rights, party invitations, and one hell of a story.
    • stigz 3y ago
      A firm handshake. They had no time to ink a benefits package, my dude.
    • politelemon 3y ago
      Office 365 subscription for one year and GitHub copilot using your own creation
    • rapsey 3y ago
      Irrelevant compared to the reputation boost for helping the company get itself back on track.
      • kmlevitt 3y ago
        I don't think anybody had high expectations for him, but he really pulled through.
    • ssnistfajen 3y ago
      Doubt he took this job for financial comp so even if he got paid, it probably wasn't much. Equity is a big part of CEO pay packages and OpenAI has weird equity structure, plus there was a very real chance OpenAI's value would go to $0 leaving whatever promised comp worthless. So Emmett likely took the job for other reasons.
  • upupupandaway 3y ago
    I am really surprised by people thinking this guy did anything to get sama back. He was probably not even in the room.
    • ssnistfajen 3y ago
      Why does he have to be in the room? Audiovisual conferencing over the Internet exists now.
• doctoboggan 3y ago
  What does Ilya have to say?
  • behnamoh 3y ago
    probably a heart emoji.
    • erikpukinskis 3y ago
      But what color heart emoji?
      • DoreenMichele 3y ago
        Purple?
  • dkarras 3y ago
    he also retweeted OpenAI's and Sam's announcements
• nickpp 3y ago
  On a side tangent, absolutely amazing how all this drama unfolded on Twitter/X. No Threads, no Mastodon, no Truth Social or Blue whatever. Say what you want about Elon’s leadership but his instinct to buy Twitter was completely right. To me it seemed like any social network crap but he realized it was important.
  • swyx 3y ago
    i mean he also tried his hardest to back out of the deal until he realized he couldnt
    • Gud 3y ago
      Only because he had to buy it while the stock market was tanking.
  • layer8 3y ago
    Inertia is a bitch.
  • highwaylights 3y ago
    Interesting take. By all accounts he paid about double what it was worth and the value has collapsed from there. Probably not a great idea to say anything overtly political when you own a social media company, as due to politics being so polarised in the US, any opinion is going to divide your audience in half causing a usage collapse and driving support to competing platforms. https://fortune.com/2023/09/06/elon-musk-x-what-is-twitter-worth/ https://fortune.com/2023/09/06/elon-musk-x-what-is-twitter-w...
    • astrange 3y ago
      His worse problem is that he owns both a social media network and a bigger separate business that wants to operate in the US, Turkey, India, China, Saudi Arabia, etc. which means he can't fight any censorship requests in any of those countries. (Which the previous management was actually very aggressive about.) His worst personal problem is that he keeps replying "fascinating" to neo-Nazis and random conspiracy theorists because he wants to be internet friends with them.
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• highwaylights 3y ago
  That’s certainly some very.. deliberate.. board picks. Summers, too. Welp.
  • kmlevitt 3y ago
    Say what you want about Summers specifically but I think it's a good idea getting some economists on the board. They are academics but focused on practical, important issues like loss of jobs and what that means for the economy and society. Up until now it seems like the board members have either been AI doomers with no practical experience or Silicon Valley types that inevitably have conflicts of interest, because everybody is starting their own AI venture now.
    • thinkcomp 3y ago
      This has nothing to do with Summers being an economist and everything to do with the fact that he used to run the parent agency of the IRS. Summers is the least sensible board pick imaginable unless one takes this fact and the coming regulatory catastrophe into account.
      • kmlevitt 3y ago
        >This has nothing to do with Summers being an economist and everything to do with the fact that he used to run the parent agency of the IRS. It has literally nothing to do with that. The reason he's on the board now is because D'Angelo wanted him on it. You could have a problem with that, but you can't use his inclusion as evidence that the board lost.
  • returnInfinity 3y ago
    It seems US Attorneys were calling the Open AI board. It helps having somebody with government ties on board now.
  • synaesthesisx 3y ago
    If we achieve AGI it has the potential to capture most (if not all) economic value. Larry Summers was a deliberate choice indeed.
• crossroadsguy 3y ago
  Now the blue tick has same effect on me on Twitter that the red N logo has on any film that came from the Netflix formula factory. I already know it’s going to be bad, regurgitated. Does everyone have a Twitter blue tick now? Or is that just a char people are using in their names?
  • r721 3y ago
    >Does everyone have a Twitter blue tick now? Or is that just a char people are using in their names? Blue tick just means user bought a subscription (X Premium) now - one of the features is "reply prioritization", so top replies to popular tweets are from blue ticks. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/x-premium https://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/x-premium
• r721 3y ago
  https://twitter.com/hlntnr/status/1727207796456751615 https://twitter.com/hlntnr/status/1727207796456751615