Why do you think that the rumors that the board was negotiating with Sam was “relatively credible?” At this point, seems more likely than not to be false, eg either random fake news or a PR spin by pro-Altman VCs.
Altman’s photo wearing the guest pass—seems like an obvious “i’m coming back to return as a CEO or not at all implication”. Like he was obviously in the OpenAI offices for some reason, seems weird for it not to be negotiations with the board over something as opposed to collecting his belongings
Roon had a now-deleted tweet along the lines of “crossed the rubicon troops marching on rome” which again, implies there was an internal open-ai move to get sam back
It still find the board silence is pretty weird, and the big missing piece here.
I stand by my current belief that the radio-silence is currently damaging for the perception and support of the AI Safety cause
It seems that the board wasn’t present when he visited. I guess what seemed to be going on were two different factions: 1) Mira Murati as interim CEO was trying to find some way to get Altman and Brockman back 2) The board was trying to find its own new CEO choice asap to foreclose any chance of Sam returning to the position
I think you are over-responding when we basically have no good information, as illustrated by the fact that you keep having to walk back claims you have made only a short time before
I take your point here John. There’s a lot that’s still to come out about the events of the weekend, and I’ve probably been a bit trigger-happy with responses. I’m going to step back from this thread and possibly the Forum as a whole for a little bit.
I do want to note that I picked up a somewhat hostile/adversarial tone to your comment (I’m not saying this was intentional). To ‘keep having to walk back claims’ seems a bit of an implied overclaim to me, especially as from my PoV it only happened twice—once seeing Ashlee Vance’s updated reporting, and the other with Joshua’s comment.
‘Walking back’ seems to also be more adversarial than just ‘corrected mistakes’ too (compare ‘you keep having to walk back claims’ vs ‘you made corrections twice’. In any case, while the reporting has changed, a lot of my intuitions and feelings haven’t shifted much. I still find the board’s complete silence strange, and think this could be a precarious moment for AI Safety.
Why do you think that the rumors that the board was negotiating with Sam was “relatively credible?” At this point, seems more likely than not to be false, eg either random fake news or a PR spin by pro-Altman VCs.
I mean I definitely agree that there’s a fog-of-war situation going on. Given some new updates here, I’ve retracted that paragraph.
Some original points were:
Things like this https://nitter.net/emilychangtv/status/1726337590901796927#m. - yes distrust the media etc etc but it seemed the main state of play
Altman’s photo wearing the guest pass—seems like an obvious “i’m coming back to return as a CEO or not at all implication”. Like he was obviously in the OpenAI offices for some reason, seems weird for it not to be negotiations with the board over something as opposed to collecting his belongings
Roon had a now-deleted tweet along the lines of “crossed the rubicon troops marching on rome” which again, implies there was an internal open-ai move to get sam back
It still find the board silence is pretty weird, and the big missing piece here.
I stand by my current belief that the radio-silence is currently damaging for the perception and support of the AI Safety cause
Update on point 2: https://nitter.net/ashleevance/status/1726457222169829838#m
It seems that the board wasn’t present when he visited. I guess what seemed to be going on were two different factions: 1) Mira Murati as interim CEO was trying to find some way to get Altman and Brockman back 2) The board was trying to find its own new CEO choice asap to foreclose any chance of Sam returning to the position
I think you are over-responding when we basically have no good information, as illustrated by the fact that you keep having to walk back claims you have made only a short time before
I take your point here John. There’s a lot that’s still to come out about the events of the weekend, and I’ve probably been a bit trigger-happy with responses. I’m going to step back from this thread and possibly the Forum as a whole for a little bit.
I do want to note that I picked up a somewhat hostile/adversarial tone to your comment (I’m not saying this was intentional). To ‘keep having to walk back claims’ seems a bit of an implied overclaim to me, especially as from my PoV it only happened twice—once seeing Ashlee Vance’s updated reporting, and the other with Joshua’s comment.
‘Walking back’ seems to also be more adversarial than just ‘corrected mistakes’ too (compare ‘you keep having to walk back claims’ vs ‘you made corrections twice’. In any case, while the reporting has changed, a lot of my intuitions and feelings haven’t shifted much. I still find the board’s complete silence strange, and think this could be a precarious moment for AI Safety.