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Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by wordpad25 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @03:50AM (#38361097)
>People keep speculating

Your take isn't uncommon, only are missing the main point of your interpretation - that the board is fully incompetent if it was truly that petty of a reason to ruin the company.

It's not even that it's not a justifiable reason, but they did it without getting legal advice or consulting with partners and didn't even wait for markets to close.

Board destroyed billions in brand and talent value for OpenAI and Microsoft in a mid day decision like that.

This is also on Sam Altman himself for building and then entertaining such an incompetent board.

Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by qwytw on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:12AM (#38361255)
> that the board is fully incompetent if it was truly that petty of a reason to ruin the company

It's perfectly obvious that these weren't the actual reasons. However yes, they are still incompetent because they couldn't think of a better justification (amongst other reasons which led to this debacle).

Re:OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sa... by kmlevitt on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:13AM (#38361264)
>Your take isn't uncommon, only are missing the main point of your interpretation - that the board is fully incompetent if it was truly that petty of a reason to ruin the company.

No, I totally agree. In fact what annoys me about all the speculation is that it seems like people are creating fanfiction to make the board seem much more competent than all available evidence suggests they actually are.