We’ll see. I am currently feeling a sense of doom around how this decision will play out. Substantial probability this will have been a really major blunder and cause an enormous amount of harm (and also non-negligible probability that it will be one of the best decisions made of all time).
For clarity, does ‘This decision’ mean the original grant for the board seat, or that historical board seat being used to oust Altman and Brockman from the company?
Yeah, that’s reasonable, as of 5:36pm PST, November 18, 2023 it still seems like a good bet. I definitely am worried about either Sam Altman + Greg Brockman starting a new, less safety-focused lab, or Sam+Greg somehow returning to OpenAI and removing the safety-focused people from the board. Even with this, it seems pretty good to have safety-focused people with some influence over OpenAI. I’m a bit confused about situations where it’s like “Yes, it was good to get influence, but it turned out you made a bad tactical mistake and ended up making things worse.”
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We’ll see. I am currently feeling a sense of doom around how this decision will play out. Substantial probability this will have been a really major blunder and cause an enormous amount of harm (and also non-negligible probability that it will be one of the best decisions made of all time).
Well, mark my words.
For clarity, does ‘This decision’ mean the original grant for the board seat, or that historical board seat being used to oust Altman and Brockman from the company?
Yeah, that’s reasonable, as of 5:36pm PST, November 18, 2023 it still seems like a good bet.
I definitely am worried about either Sam Altman + Greg Brockman starting a new, less safety-focused lab, or Sam+Greg somehow returning to OpenAI and removing the safety-focused people from the board.
Even with this, it seems pretty good to have safety-focused people with some influence over OpenAI. I’m a bit confused about situations where it’s like “Yes, it was good to get influence, but it turned out you made a bad tactical mistake and ended up making things worse.”