I mean he didn’t threaten to take the team with him, he was just going to do so.
We also don’t know what went on behind the scenes, and it seems plausible that many OpenAI employees were (mildly) pressured into signing by the pro-Sam crowd.
So if counterfactually he hadn’t been willing to destroy the company, he could have assuaged the people closest to him, and likely the dynamics would have been much different.
I mean he didn’t threaten to take the team with him, he was just going to do so.
We also don’t know what went on behind the scenes, and it seems plausible that many OpenAI employees were (mildly) pressured into signing by the pro-Sam crowd.
So if counterfactually he hadn’t been willing to destroy the company, he could have assuaged the people closest to him, and likely the dynamics would have been much different.