This wasn't a move by investors. OpenAI is structured very oddly, and the board isn't ran by investers. It seems like Microsoft was against ousting him, and behind a public PR campaign to get him back (which seems to have failed). If you want deep discourse on this topic go to Hacker News, which is run the start-up incubator Altman used to be the president of:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38342643There are people of all political leanings on Hacker News, but they're disproportionately Californian Ideology fanboys.
>>22427>alignment>safe AGI>slowing development so as to not accidentally create Skynet!!!!HN lemming horde as ever running full speed in the direction of the hype
I don't think there is another website online with such a large collection of NPCs.
>>22489I don't read it that way. I think the employees leaving were leaving for *Altman*, not Microsoft; if Altman had secured funding somewhere else, that's where they would've headed too. In 2009, Paul Graham put Altman on his list of the most interesting founders of the prior 30 years and wrote this:
>5. Sam Altman
>I was told I shouldn't mention founders of YC-funded companies in this list. But Sam Altman can't be stopped by such flimsy rules. If he wants to be on this list, he's going to be.
>Honestly, Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder I refer to most when I'm advising startups. On questions of design, I ask "What would Steve do?" but on questions of strategy or ambition I ask "What would Sama do?"
>What I learned from meeting Sama is that the doctrine of the elect applies to startups. It applies way less than most people think: startup investing does not consist of trying to pick winners the way you might in a horse race. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want.Microsoft did run a public PR campaign to get him back, but it failed. After it failed, they hired him and the vast majority of staff left to join Altman's new team. They didn't leave for Microsoft, they left for Altman, and they wanted Altman for the same reasons Microsoft did: he's logically a great captain to choose for this ship, and I say that as somebody who hates hierarchies and would like us to design ships that don't need captains. It's not Microsoft who has the leverage here, it's Altman.
>>22533>omg le freaking AI takeover!!!1 o_ONo one cares
Go cum your cargo shorts to Star Trek or whatever
>>22527Muh entrepreneurship.
I just made the connection that entrepreneur worship is identical with fascist ideology on the theme of the heroic leader cutting through bureaucracy
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