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Dude, you're being played if you think Ilya did this for 'the betterment of mankind'
This was a power play, pure and simple.
How do you know that? And how can you be so confident about it?
Did you see ilya's latest tweet? Did you notice that he hasn't shared a single valid reason for why he ousted Sam? If he had done so 80% of openAI's employees would not be planning on leaving openAI (fun fact, ilya is in that group LOL)
I mean it's obviously a power play. But the characters involved are this:
Altman: entrepreneur extraordinaire, head of YC, CEO, investor, etc.
Brockman: entrepreneur extraordinaire, former CTO of Stripe (e-commerce infra company), investor, etc.
Nadella: CEO of Microsoft, nuff said.
Sutskevar: researcher extraordinaire, academic
McCauley: RAND Corp scientist (no idea what that means but it has scientist in the name)
Toner: Georgetown academic.
All of the tech entrepreneur people and investors -- the people who are obsessed with just making money -- are on one side. And all of the academic, science people are on the other side. Recall that OpenAI was founded by a bunch of researchers and academics who explicitly made it a nonprofit, which Altman changed once he became CEO in 2019.
Idk if the academics really care about the betterment of mankind, but I know for a fact that the other guys' are driven by pure greed.
The people obsessed with making money? Do you know what a CTO is? Greg Brockman is an engineer and was leading all technical operations at stripe. He himself has been involved in multiple big papers, also the lead researcher of GPT-4 just quit OpenAI to join Greg and Sam… Ilya is not even listed as a main contributor for GPT-4 and Greg was…
No man, ilya is bigger. Greg's name might be on the paper but doesn't mean he was involved in doing research. ILya is famous for many bug things.
"For the betterment of mankind" is how sociopaths justify doing horrible things.