Aside from obvious questions on how it will impact the alignment approach of OpenAI and whether or not it is a factional war of some sort, I really hope this has nothing to do with Sama’s sister. Both options—”she is wrong but something convinced the OpenAI leadership that’s she’s right” and “she is actually right and finally gathered some proof of her claims”—are very bad.
…On the other hand, as cynical and grim as that is, sexual harassment probably won’t spell a disaster down the line, unlike a power struggle among the tops of an AGI-pursuing company.
Speculation on the available info: They must have questioned him on that. Discovering that he was not entirely candid with them would be a good explanation of this announcement. And shadowbanning would be the most discoverable here.
Surely they would use different language than “not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities” to describe a #metoo firing.
Yeah, I also think this is very unlikely. Just had to point out the possibility for completeness sake.
In other news, someone on Twitter (a leaker? not sure) said that there probably will be more firings and that this is a struggle of for-profit vs non-profit sides of the company, with Sama representing the for-profit side.
I really hope this has nothing to do with Sama’s sister
That reminds me of the post we had here a month ago. When I asked how exactly are we supposed to figure out the truth about something that happened in private many years ago, I was told that:
OP is conducting a research; we should wait for the conclusions (should I keep holding my breath?)
we should wait whether other victims come forward, and update accordingly (did we actually?)
Now I wonder whether Less Wrong was used as a part of a character-assassination campaign designed to make people less likely to defend Sam Altman in case of a company takeover. And we happily played along.
(This is unrelated to whether firing Sam Altman was good or bad from the perspective of AI safety.)
Aside from obvious questions on how it will impact the alignment approach of OpenAI and whether or not it is a factional war of some sort, I really hope this has nothing to do with Sama’s sister. Both options—”she is wrong but something convinced the OpenAI leadership that’s she’s right” and “she is actually right and finally gathered some proof of her claims”—are very bad. …On the other hand, as cynical and grim as that is, sexual harassment probably won’t spell a disaster down the line, unlike a power struggle among the tops of an AGI-pursuing company.
Speculation on the available info: They must have questioned him on that. Discovering that he was not entirely candid with them would be a good explanation of this announcement. And shadowbanning would be the most discoverable here.
Surely they would use different language than “not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities” to describe a #metoo firing.
Yeah, I also think this is very unlikely. Just had to point out the possibility for completeness sake.
In other news, someone on Twitter (a leaker? not sure) said that there probably will be more firings and that this is a struggle of for-profit vs non-profit sides of the company, with Sama representing the for-profit side.
I think they said that there were more departures to come. I assumed that was referring to people quitting because they disagreed with the decision.
That reminds me of the post we had here a month ago. When I asked how exactly are we supposed to figure out the truth about something that happened in private many years ago, I was told that:
OP is conducting a research; we should wait for the conclusions (should I keep holding my breath?)
we should wait whether other victims come forward, and update accordingly (did we actually?)
Now I wonder whether Less Wrong was used as a part of a character-assassination campaign designed to make people less likely to defend Sam Altman in case of a company takeover. And we happily played along.
(This is unrelated to whether firing Sam Altman was good or bad from the perspective of AI safety.)