It indeed did seem like something Ilya would post himself, or at least someone cosplaying as him. Based on what we’ve seen on Twitter from employees it looks like a significant chunk supports Sam.
They're dreaming of being the next version of early googlers, i guess that is inevitable once people start doing math equations that include eleven digit numbers in them
OpenAI's been offering $800K+ compensation for mid-level AI engineers, roughly double what Google offers them, so yeah I suspect a large portion of the recent staff is probably late-stage Googlers who have dreams of being like early Googlers.
All this talk of talent, they just end up with a company full of people driven only by monetary pursuits. How could it ever have worked with the non profit mission
This is anything involving Effective Altruists. It is a facade of respectability to justify chasing money at all costs.