Factional lines are often drawn splitting up large groups like corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits, with the lines tracing networks of alliances, and also retaliatory commitments that are often used to make factions and individuals hardened against removal by rivals.
People are nonetheless occasionally purged along these lines rather than more efficient decision theory like values handshakes.
These conflicts and purges are followed by harsh rhetoric, since people feel urges to search languagespace and find combinations of words that optimize for retaliatory harm against others.
I would be very grateful for sufficient evidence that the new leadership at OpenAI is popular or unpopular among a large portions of the employees, rather than a small number of anonymous people who might have been allied to the purged people.
I think it might be better to donate that info e.g. message LW mods via the intercom feature in the lower right corner, than to post it publicly.
There are certainly factions in most large groups, with in-conflict, but this sort of coup is unprecedented. I think in the majority of cases, factions tend to cooperate or come to a resolution. If factions couldn’t cooperate, most corporations would be fairly dysfunctional. If the solution was a coup, governments would be even more dysfunctional.
This is public information, so is there a particular reason I should have not posted it?
The human brain seems to be structured such that
Factional lines are often drawn splitting up large groups like corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits, with the lines tracing networks of alliances, and also retaliatory commitments that are often used to make factions and individuals hardened against removal by rivals.
People are nonetheless occasionally purged along these lines rather than more efficient decision theory like values handshakes.
These conflicts and purges are followed by harsh rhetoric, since people feel urges to search languagespace and find combinations of words that optimize for retaliatory harm against others.
I would be very grateful for sufficient evidence that the new leadership at OpenAI is popular or unpopular among a large portions of the employees, rather than a small number of anonymous people who might have been allied to the purged people.
I think it might be better to donate that info e.g. message LW mods via the intercom feature in the lower right corner, than to post it publicly.
There are certainly factions in most large groups, with in-conflict, but this sort of coup is unprecedented. I think in the majority of cases, factions tend to cooperate or come to a resolution. If factions couldn’t cooperate, most corporations would be fairly dysfunctional. If the solution was a coup, governments would be even more dysfunctional.
This is public information, so is there a particular reason I should have not posted it?
Can you please link to it or say what app or website this is?
Here it is:
“Sam Altman’s reputation among OpenAI researchers (Tech Industry)” https://www.teamblind.com/us/s/Ji1QX120