A salient piece of news which prompted me writing this up was Sama vs OpenAI board. I’ve kept this note out of the post itself because much less timeless.
It looks like Sam’s subsequent willingness to escalate and do battle with the board is strong evidence that he considers his goals meaningfully misaligned from theirs, and their willingness to fire him suggests they feel the same way. Unclear what this rests on, whether it’s genuine level of care about safety, or more about intermediate things like the tradeoffs around productisation and publicity, or other stuff.
A salient piece of news which prompted me writing this up was Sama vs OpenAI board. I’ve kept this note out of the post itself because much less timeless.
It looks like Sam’s subsequent willingness to escalate and do battle with the board is strong evidence that he considers his goals meaningfully misaligned from theirs, and their willingness to fire him suggests they feel the same way. Unclear what this rests on, whether it’s genuine level of care about safety, or more about intermediate things like the tradeoffs around productisation and publicity, or other stuff.