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The simple answer here is that the boards actions stood to incinerate millions of dollars of wealth for most of these employees, and they were up in arms. They
by roflc0ptic 3y ago
The simple answer here is that the boards actions stood to incinerate millions of dollars of wealth for most of these employees, and they were up in arms.
They’re all acting out the intended incentives of giving people stake in a company: please don’t destroy it.
- whywhywhywhy 3y agoWild the employees will go back under a new board and the same structure, first priority should be removing the structure that allowed a small group of people to destroy things over what may have been very petty reasons.
- CydeWeys 3y agoWell it's a different group of people and that group will now know the consequences of attempting to remove Sam Altman. I don't see this happening again.
- youcantcook 3y agoMost likely, but it is cute how confident you are towards humanity learning their lesson.
- tstrimple 3y agoHumanity no. But it's not humanity on the OpenAI board. It's 9 individuals. Individuals have amazing capacity for learning and improvement.
- cityguy33 3y agoI don’t understand how the fact they went from a nonprofit into a for-profit subsidiary of one of the most closed-off anticompetitive megacorps in tech is so readily glossed over. I get it, we all love money and Sam’s great at generating it, but anyone who works at OpenAI besides the board seems to be morally bankrupt.
- gdhkgdhkvff 3y agoPretty easy to complain about lack of morals when it’s someone else’s millions of dollars of potential compensation that will be incinerated. Also, working for a subsidiary (which was likely going to be given much more self-governance than working directly at megacorp), doesn’t necessarily mean “evil”. That’s a very 1-dimensional way to think about things. Self-disclosure: I work for a megacorp.
- yoyohello13 3y agoWe can acknowledge that it's morally bankrupt, while also not blaming them. Hell, I'd probably do the same thing in their shoes. That doesn't make it right.
- BeetleB 3y ago> Pretty easy to complain about lack of morals when it’s someone else’s millions of dollars of potential compensation that will be incinerated. And while also working for a for-profit company.
- yterdy 3y agoIf some of the smartest people on the planet are willing to sell the rest of us out for Comfy Lifestyle Money (not even Influence State Politics Money), then we are well and truly Capital-F Fucked.
- deckard1 3y agoWe already know some of the smartest people are willing to sell us out. Because they work for FAANG ad tech, spending their days figuring out how to maximize the eyeballs they reach while sucking up all your privacy. It's a post-"Don't be evil" world today.
- jacquesm 3y agoIf half of the brainpower invested in advertising food would go towards world hunger we'd have too much food.