One also might argue that Altman was willing to see the organization destroyed, and that he was the one raising the threat of taking OpenAI with him if he went down.
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.
One also might argue that Altman was willing to see the organization destroyed, and that he was the one raising the threat of taking OpenAI with him if he went down.
Did Sam threaten to take the team with him, or did the team threaten to quit and follow him? From what I saw it looked like the latter.
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.