I’d say we disagree about the following somewhat indeterminate points:
1. Whether OpenAI has/could-have-had staying power without raising immense amounts of venture capital. I will readily admit that they’ve gone so far down this road that they are now somewhat trapped by their massive investments and contracts, not to mention losing almost all their top researchers.
2. Whether the people in charge of this deal can be trusted to propose a fair outcome for the charity other than “their mission ineffably lives on in us” (and as a corollary, whether a fair outcome is likely).
3. Whether the private technical assets of OpenAI (GPT, DALLE, and Sora) are meaningfully unique in their potential for impact, knowing what the public knows in the current moment — which I will admit is far from the complete competitive picture.
4. Whether OpenAI’s mission could be meaningfully achieved by passing out grants to a diverse body of scientists.
I’d be happy to “debate” (lol) any of those particulars if you want, but I think it’s otherwise best to leave it at “we assess the known facts differently”. If we let some time pass, that’ll at least settle question 2…
