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Never assume someone is winning a game of 5D chess when someone else could just be losing a game of checkers.

>>jackco+(OP)
what does that even mean?

>>radres+43
OpenAI may just be a couple having an angry fight, and M$ is just the neighbor with cash happy to buy all the stuff the angry wife is throwing out for pennies on the dollar.

>>radres+43
In this case, it means that what happened is: “OpenAI board is incompetent”, instead of “Microsoft planned this to take over the company.”

A conspiracy like the one proposed would basically be impossible to coordinate yet keep secret, especially considering the board members might loose their seats and their own market value.

>>radres+43
He is saying that what might seem like a sophisticated, well-planned strategy could actually be just the outcome of basic errors or poor decisions made by someone else.

>>radres+43
In other words - it doesn’t have to be someone’s genius plan, it could have just been an unintelligent mistake

>>radres+43
I think it means don't attribute to intelligence what could be easily explained as stupidity?

>>radres+43
Hanlon's razor, basically.

The most plausible scenario here is that the board is comprised of people lacking in foresight who did something stupid. A lot of people are generating a 5D chess plot orchestrated by Microsoft in their heads.

>>radres+43
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"

>>jackco+(OP)
I highly doubt this was a coordinated plan from the start by Microsoft. I think what we're seeing here is a seasoned team of executives (Microsoft) eating a naive and inexperienced board alive after the latter fumbled.