We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by dmix on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:58AM (#38375777)

Add delusions of grandeur to that list thinking she can pursue her ideological will by winning over 3 board members while losing 90% of the company staff.

She was fighting an idelogical battle that needs full industry buy in, legitimate or not that's not how you win people over.

If she's truely a rationalist as she claims then a rationalist would be realistic understanding that if your engineers can just leave and do it somewhere else tomorrow you aren't making progress. Taking on the full might of US capitalism via winning over the fringe half of a non profit board is not the best strategy. At best it was desperate and naive.

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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by astrange on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:53AM (#38376267)

This is pretty good evidence she's a rationalist; rationalism means a religious devotion to a specific kind of logical thinking that never works in real life because you can't calculate the probability a result if you didn't know it could happen in the first place.

Traditional response to this happening is to say something about your "priors" being wrong instead of taking responsibility.

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