I'll say my first reaction was pretty positive: Sam Altman has a manner of speaking that rubs a lot of people the wrong way because it feels steeped in hubris. He'd probably talk down to anyone in this thread for being here instead of building and point to it as why you're not yet a billionaire.
Some people also worried he was a distraction to OpenAI building useful things because of his constant talk about AGI, pushing for regulation, etc. He successfully created an image of being a moderating rod in some ways.
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That being said, as the full picture comes out it's becoming clear the reasoning for his firing is more aligned against the average HN image than anyone imagined.
A lot of people admire OpenAI for the exact things he got fired for: which is building things and shipping them without miring yourself in philosophical diversions.
Now only a noisy minority who think OpenAI could have achieved this all without immense commercial funding are really for his ousting, and I think they'll see the opposite effect of what they hope: OpenAI is going to slow down, open source will not catch up, and overall AI will have lost out over it all.
I'll say my first reaction was pretty positive: Sam Altman has a manner of speaking that rubs a lot of people the wrong way because it feels steeped in hubris. He'd probably talk down to anyone in this thread for being here instead of building and point to it as why you're not yet a billionaire.
Some people also worried he was a distraction to OpenAI building useful things because of his constant talk about AGI, pushing for regulation, etc. He successfully created an image of being a moderating rod in some ways.
_
That being said, as the full picture comes out it's becoming clear the reasoning for his firing is more aligned against the average HN image than anyone imagined.
A lot of people admire OpenAI for the exact things he got fired for: which is building things and shipping them without miring yourself in philosophical diversions.
Now only a noisy minority who think OpenAI could have achieved this all without immense commercial funding are really for his ousting, and I think they'll see the opposite effect of what they hope: OpenAI is going to slow down, open source will not catch up, and overall AI will have lost out over it all.