Posted by golfer 1 day ago
The rank and file mutinied for the return of Altman after his board fired him for deception. They knew what they were getting, though they may find it shameful to admit that their morals have a price.
How many people have joined since? I don’t think the people who lobbied for that are all still there, and I’m not sure a majority of people now at OpenAI were there when it happened.
The smartest people, that actually believe they have the skillset to take us to AGI, understand the importance of safety. They have largely joined Anthropic. The talent density at Anthropic is unmatched.
> > what's the term for quitting but not leaving and being destructive
> The most common term is “quiet quitting” when someone disengages but stays employed—but that usually implies minimal effort, not active harm.
> If you specifically mean staying while being disruptive or undermining, better fits include:
> - “Malicious compliance” — following rules in a way that intentionally causes problems
> - “Work-to-rule” — doing only exactly what’s required to slow things down (often collective/labor context)
I imagine malicious compliance is fun when there's an AI intermediary that can be blameless.
Actually that is too conservative. If they have a 5% employee equity pool, there is $37.5bn of equity based compensation divided by say 5000 employees which is $7.5m each. $3.75m @ 10,000 employees.
and trust me, when people start getting liquid and comfortable they stop caring about things like ethics pretty fast. humans are marvellous at that
Us taking the contract, working for them and enabling them: fine
It being renamed the Dept. of War in the first place: totally fine, we loudly and bootlickingly repeat it
Anthropic being blacklisted: whoa there, we have ethics!
Footnote: any time the winning team tries to speak well of or defend the losing team I always think of this standup routine: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg6wBwhuaVo