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Emmett Shear on Twitter:

I am deeply pleased by this result, after ~72 very intense hours of work. Coming into OpenAI, I wasn’t sure what the right path would be. This was the pathway that maximized safety alongside doing right by all stakeholders involved. I’m glad to have been a part of the solution.

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1727210329560756598

>>meetpa+(OP)
I'm probably reading too much into it, but interesting that he specifically called out maximizing safety.

>>meetpa+(OP)
I wonder what he gets out of this. Ceo for a few days? Do they pay him for 3 days of work? Presumably you'd want some minimum signing bonus in your contract as a Ceo?

>>reustl+M1
Sam does believe in safety. He also knows that there is a first-mover advantage when it comes to setting societal expectations and that you can’t build safe AI by not building AI.

>>reustl+M1
"Safety" has been the pretext for Altman's lobbying for regulatory barriers to new entrants in the field, protecting incumbents. OpenAI's nonprofit charter is the perfect PR pretext for what amounts to industry lobbying to protect a narrow set of early leaders and obstruct any other competition, and Altman was the man executing that mission, which is why OpenAI led by Sam was a valuable asset for Microsoft to preserve.

>>cheeze+c2
he’ll put CEO of OAI on his resume

>>cheeze+c2
He 100% had a golden parachute in case this scenario came up and will be paid out. Executives have lawyers to make sure of this.

>>behnam+l5
I wouldn't. Everybody knows it's three days, not much to brag about.

>>reustl+M1
That’s just a buzzword of the week devoid of any real meaning. If he would have written this years ago, it would’ve been “leveraging synergies”.

>>jq-r+T6
Shear is a genuine member of the AI safety rationalism cult, to the point he's an Aella reply guy and probably goes to her orgies.

(It's a Berkeley cult so of course it's got those.)

>>cheeze+c2
https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1727228431396704557

The reputation boost is probably worth a lot more than the direct financial compensation he's getting.

>>meetpa+(OP)
He’s trying very very hard to claim some credit in this. Probably had none.

>>upupup+1m
https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1727228431396704557

He was instrumental; threatened resignation unless the old board could provide evidence of wrongdoing

>>upupup+1m
Are you basing that on any information?

>>rospay+A6
More than I'll probably ever have to brag about during my tenure in the workforce, lol

>>flappy+vG
...this doesn't seem instrumental?

>>halfma+0X1
cool. it was

>>halfma+0X1
Good thing you had a question mark there.

Because the answer is: Yes, it seems utterly instrumental.