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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by ssnistfajen on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:36AM (#38377060)
Persuaded by whom? This whole saga has been opaque to pretty much everyone outside the handful of individuals directly negotiating with each other. This never was about a battle for OpenAI's mission or else the share of employees siding with Sam wouldn't have been that high.
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by LudwigNagasena on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:44AM (#38377938)
Why not? Maybe the board was just too late to the party. Maybe the employees that wouldn’t side with Sam have already left[1], and the board was just too late to realise that. And maybe all the employees who are still at OpenAI mostly care about their equity-like instruments.

[1] https://board.net/p/r.e6a8f6578787a4cc67d4dc438c6d236e

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