- https://www.teamblind.com/post/OpenAI-employees-did-you-sign...
Not signing the letter might mean the company falls apart, and most of these employees have millions worth of shares that they were about to have an option to sell in a new funding round.
(although there's or course a third possibility of them just being bright but too naive to STILL not see the sham that Sam has played for years and manipulated [2] them into believing it)
[1] https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/look-at-scientology-to-...
[2] https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/172675427022402397...
There's no way the current episode doesn't damage reputation of everyone involved. On the flip side, there's nothing more revealing about powerful people in just how they defend (or attack) other powerful people, while useful idiots scurry around.
We are those useful idiots.
https://static.space/sha2-256:a53e64b47b45972c3086e0300a8bb0...
(including its digest in the URL -- even if the content is moved elsewhere, we can know for sure whether it was modified)
This is worded like they are following a messiah and anything said after that is now tainted with worship speak. I get that they have concerns but this isn’t the way.
This isn’t to say it’s not fair to criticize Sam and Greg but none of these sound like issues that would lead to them being fired.
You have almost every single employee vouching for Sam, people outside the company vouching for him, an anon letter is paper thin as far credibility goes.
And ofc, any employee that got pushed out is going to have an axe to grind. Losing out on 900k+/year has to sting. At that compensation and in a startup, performance, disagreeing and comitting are key to the success of the venture. You should expect attrition to be high (though how did author of the letter get to 50%? who knows)
The board is hiding, one of which has a direct competitor to a recently launched product so obv. conflict of interest, the employees are calling bs, Ilya himself turned, etc. This is just stupid.
Some others have put this perfectly, given what has transpired so far, how do they expect to align an agi? You'd expect resignations based on that alone.
