Hm, very good point! I now think that could be his most immediate motivation. Would feel sad to build something and then see it implode (and also the team to be left in limbo). On reflection, that makes me think maybe Sam doesn’t necessarily look that bad here. I’m sure Microsoft tried to use their leverage to push for changes, and the OpenAI board stood its ground, so it couldn’t have been easy to find a solution that isn’t the company falling apart over disagreements and stuff.
Perhaps some of his motivation was to keep OpenAI from imploding?
Hm, very good point! I now think that could be his most immediate motivation. Would feel sad to build something and then see it implode (and also the team to be left in limbo). On reflection, that makes me think maybe Sam doesn’t necessarily look that bad here. I’m sure Microsoft tried to use their leverage to push for changes, and the OpenAI board stood its ground, so it couldn’t have been easy to find a solution that isn’t the company falling apart over disagreements and stuff.