Googler Reacts To Leopold Aschenbrenner And Dwarkesh Patel’s Interview About His OpenAI Firing
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Chapters
00:00 Josie: Update On OpenAI Voices
01:20 Circle Jerking About AGI
03:07 Leopold (L) On Why He Was Fored
05:30 Jordan (J) Not Liked At OpenAI, Just Like Google AI Ethicists
09:00 Live Comment JMT – Can’t Wait For Leopold to return!
09:55 Follow: twitch.tv/authenticpeach – He Does Great Work!
10:30 L: On His Leak And Going To The Board
10:55 (J) Why He Was An Idiot To Go To The Board
12:15 L: Fighting with HR
12:19 J: How HR Works At OpenAI, Google, Facebook
13:44 J: Why The All-In Podcast Doesn’t Understand HR
16:16 J: Different Roles in HR
20:00 J: Why HR Diversity Has Been Attacked
21:41 J: Chamath’s Bad Point & Not Understanding Opportunity Cost
22:43 J: Sam Dealing With Leopold & Asking For HR’s Help
26:35 J: How To Deal With Corporate HR
29:00 L: Sharing Doc with board
30:00 J: Leopold’s bad argument about fighting with a lawyer
32:57 J: Calling Out Leopold On Forgetting How To Share A Google Doc
34:13 J: Alignment People At OpenAI Attacking Colleagues In Slack Channels
37:20 J: Not Signing Letter To Support Sam
38:30 L: They Should Have Told Me Directly I Wasn’t Wanted
39:18 J: No, Because You Would Have Gone Crazy
39:35 Live Comment Alexander Brown: AI Safety Should Focus On Reality
42:20 LC JMT: Please Leopold Don’t Return To Germany
42:50 L: Signing The Nda
43:10 J: He Had Unvested Equity, OpenAI Asked To Sign An Agreement
46:20 J: Dwarkesh Doesn’t Know How To Ask Compensation Questions
48:22 J: OpenAI’s Deal, Elon’s Jim Jams
49:57 J: 1 Mil For NDA?
50:30 Dwarkesh Bad Question
51:45 J: Why The Alignment Team Exists
52:55 Leopold & Powerpuff girls
54:47 J: Mission For AGI Is Not The Problem, Elon & Mars
57:17 L: CCP
57:47 J: Industrial Espionage Internal Investigations
1:00:53 LCS Alexander B.: Security Processes For $1T Tech Companies
1:06:02 L: Bitching That Things Change At Companies
1:06:29 J: Dealing With Startup Pivots
1:08:57 J: Alignment Folks SF Lean
1:09:47 J: L’s Hedgefund
1:11:07 L: His Hedgefund Thesis
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