[ben_w]

745 of 770 employees responded on a weekend to call for his return, threatened mass resignations if the board did not resign; among the signatories was board member Sutskever, who defected from the board and publicly apologized for his participation in the board's previous actions.

[LeafItAlone]

>745 of 700 employees responded on a weekend to call for his return, threatened mass resignations if the board did not resign

I would think final count doesn’t really matter. Self serving cowards, like me, would sign it once they see the way the wind was blowing. How many signed it before Satya at Microsoft indicated support for Altman?

[samvher]

I followed the drama. The point I was (somewhat unsuccessfully) trying to make was that while, sure, there were groups who wanted him back (mainly the groups with vested financial interests and associated leverage), my sense was that the way it played out was not necessarily in line with wider humanity's best interest, i.e. as would have been hoped based on OpenAI's publicly stated goals.

[ben_w]

Oh, in that case sure.

The statements in the whole popcorn drama still don't add up in my mind, so from the point of view of "humanity's best interest", I'd say it's still bad.

I thought you meant at the time, not with the benefit of hindsight.

[johnnyanmac]

>my sense was that the way it played out was not necessarily in line with wider humanity's best interest,

Sure. But you make the foolish assumption here that humanity even has humanity's best interests at heart. Sentiment may be negative on current LLM generative based AI, but there's still plenty of people with either potential vested interests or simply seeing missing the forest for the tree. It's pretty hard to say "everyone hates/loves AI" at this current time.

[talldayo]

I'd do that too if I held stock, and I think the guy is a borderline-vampire.

[fwip]

745 of 700?

[ben_w]

Whoops, typo for 770, edited to correct. Thanks!