Not admitted · Not a forecast
Rules 1.1.0 · as of 14 Sep 2026
Owen Scott Muir · Said 23 Nov 2023 · owen-0785
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“I bet all the people who are bad at math could still figure out that firing Sam Altman when he created a $90 billion valuation company with an additional $10 billion from Microsoft would not fly with either Microsoft or anybody else who cared about the money”
The author argues the OpenAI board failed to 'do the math': firing Sam Altman would not be accepted by Microsoft or other money-interested parties. Written 2023-11-23, after the firing; the post already calls the firing a failed landing.
Descriptive, retrospective, or a statement of preference; no future state asserted.