Honestly there is something deeply shameful about tech workers finally organizing, uniting together in one voice, and using that voice to defend Sam Altman of all people.
I am very hesitant to trust charismatic people like Altman, even before hearing of his worldcoin.
Worldcoin has terrible optics, thanks in part to having "coin" as part of the name which is a word it shares with endless scams. However they're solving real problems which do unfortunately involve biometrics, but in the long term it's extremely privacy protecting biometrics and nothing is meaningfully stored anywhere in the long term vision.
The board screwed up. They could have negotiated with MS on another CEO. Instead they went behind everyone's backs and thought themselves omnipotent. Well, guess what.
Why? The board is from OpenAI, Inc. and MS isn't an investor of OpenAI, Inc.
Had they played this like adults they could have seen through a smooth transition and not be looking at a total collapse like they are now.
(By spice I mean money here for those unfamiliar with the reference)
We used to identify some behaviour as sin. A few years ago it was commonly said that "Microsoft is evil".
They saw the money on the horizon and that changed everything.