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Yeah, on one hand, the difference between a charity oriented around a mission like OpenAI's nominal charter and a business is that the former naturally ought to be publicly, honestly introspective -- its mission isn't private gain, but achieving a public effect, and both recognition of success elsewhere and open acknowledgement of shortcomings of your own is important to that.

On the other hand, its quite apparent that essentially all of the OpenAI workforce (understandably, given the compensation package which creates a financial interest at odds with the nonprofit's mission) and in particular the entire executive team saw the charter as a useful PR fiction, not a mission (except maybe Ilya, though the flip-flop in the middle of this action may mean he saw it the same way, but thought that given the conflict, dumping Sam and Greg would be the only way to preserve the fiction, and whatever cost it would have would be worthwhile given that function.)