[rjzzleep]

This isn't unlike the radio silence Brendan Eich kept, when the Mozilla sh* hit the fan. This is in my opinion the outcome of when really technical and scientific people have been given decades of advice of not talking to the public.

I have seen this play out many times in different locations for different people. A lot of technical folks like myself were given the advice that actions speak louder than words.

I was once scouted at a silicon valley selenium browser testing company. I migrated their cloud offering from VMWare to KVM, which depended on code I wrote and then defied my middle manager by improving their entire infrastructure performance by 40%. My instinct was to communicate this to the leadership, but I was advised not to skip my middle manager.

The next time I went the office I got a severance package and later found out that 2 hours later during the all hands they presented my work as their own. The middle manage went on to become the CTO of several companies.

I doubt we will ever find out what really happened or at least not in the next 5-10 years. OpenAI let Sam Altman be the public face of the company and got burned by it.

Personally I had no idea Ilya was the main guy in this company until the drama that happened. I also didn't know that Sam Altman was basically only there to bring in the cash. I assume that most people will actually never know that part of OpenAI.

[winterplace]

Your instinct was right, who advised you against that?

What happened in the days before you got the severance package?

Do you have an email address or a contact method?

[rjzzleep]

I've seen this advice being given in different situations. I've also met all sorts of engineers that have been given this advice. "Make your manager look good and he will reward you" is kinda the general idea. I guess it can be true sometimes, but I have a feeling that that might be the minority or is at least heavily dependent on how confident that person is.

I would not be surprised if Sam Altman would keep telling the board and more specifically Ilya to trust him since they(he) don't understand the business side of things.

> Do you have an email address or a contact method?

EDIT: It's in my profile(now).

> What happened in the days before you got the severance package?

I went to DEFCON out of pocket and got booted off a conference call supposedly due to my bad hotel wifi.

[selestify]

Wow, I have nothing to say, other than that’s some major BS!