OpenAI employees currently seem like they can’t/won’t say public critical statements about OpenAI because of equity considerations. This seems like a situation where it is important not to have your public communication affected by thinking about stock prices.
I would be very unhappy if a non disparagement agreement were sprung on me when I left the company. And I would be very reluctant to sign one entering any company.
Fair enough! But perhaps disparaging enough things could affect the value of equity, though probably by less than refusing to sign a non-disparagement agreement and not getting your vested PPUs.
Does that make you reconsider whether having the equity might give you action-altering (and, particularly, speech-altering) incentives?
OpenAI employees currently seem like they can’t/won’t say public critical statements about OpenAI because of equity considerations. This seems like a situation where it is important not to have your public communication affected by thinking about stock prices.
Does this change your thinking any?
I would be very unhappy if a non disparagement agreement were sprung on me when I left the company. And I would be very reluctant to sign one entering any company.
Luckily we don’t have those at Google Deepmind.
Fair enough! But perhaps disparaging enough things could affect the value of equity, though probably by less than refusing to sign a non-disparagement agreement and not getting your vested PPUs.
Does that make you reconsider whether having the equity might give you action-altering (and, particularly, speech-altering) incentives?