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by 93po 1056 days ago
Sam Altman's work on OpenAI is hard to characterize as selfish when he owns none of it and doesn't get paid for it.
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Atotalnoob 1056 days ago
He is the CEO, and according to levels.fyi, they give out stock grants.

Why on earth would the CEO not get a stock grant when the entry level SWEs do?

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ascorbic 1056 days ago
He's said that he doesn't take any stock. I don't know why so many people thing this is strange. He's already immensely rich. While this role might not make him richer, but it does give him huge amounts of power and influence.
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blitzar 1055 days ago
Richness comes in many flavours other than $$$s. As you point out huge amounts of power and influence - something money cant buy.
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ascorbic 1055 days ago
Well, tbf it kinda can but I get your point
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93po 1054 days ago
Because he chose to not be compensated because he felt it was too big of a conflict of interest given the stakes
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baobabKoodaa 1056 days ago
Sure. Just don't look at the boats.
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