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> Given the absence of interest in joining Microsoft, many OpenAI employees "felt pressured" to sign the open letter, the employee admitted. The letter itself w
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 3y ago
> Given the absence of interest in joining Microsoft, many OpenAI employees "felt pressured" to sign the open letter, the employee admitted. The letter itself was drafted by a group of longtime staffers who have the most clout and money at stake with years of industry standing and equity built up, as well as higher pay. They began calling other staffers late on Sunday night, urging them to sign, the employee explained.
What a clusterfuck. I feel bad for anyone who supported the board.
- Tenoke 3y agoThis isnt the board though. This is the against the board side.
- what_ever 3y agoThat's why they feel bad for those who supported the board as the ones that opposed the board may not have just done it based on the board's actions.
- staunton 3y agoAnyone who supported the board was in a situation where they deemed they could afford to go against the peer pressure. This is a combination of acting according to their beliefs/values and economic security. Those people should be envied, not pitied.
- kbenson 3y agoWe should envy people that stand firm on their beliefs and are vindicated, not those that may experience backlash in the future because people that had a different view won in the end. Suffering hardship for doing what you think is right is not something to envy. Don't envy martyrs, wish for a world without the need for them.
- scarface_74 3y agoHow many people will stand by their “beliefs” at the cost of millions of dollars?
- kbenson 3y agoPlenty, but I suspect most of them already have millions of dollars so it's relatively much less of a sacrifice. But for someone who's not a millionaire that looks at the situation and doesn't know how it will shake out, and maybe believes it's 60/40 or 75/25 against what they think is right, it's possible that principle can make up the difference in those assessments and make the difference in what they choose. Just because someone isn't passing up a "sure thing" doesn't mean they aren't sacrificing something, especially when most sure things aren't actually sure at all. In reality it's all a matter of statistical likelihoods (and we either think of them that way, or like most people use a different model of thinking that amounts to the same thing while convincing us it's not), so I don't see this situation as being all that different.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 3y agoSorry I meant the people who privately supported the board but were peer pressured into signing.