This Reddit post from 8-years ago, reads eerily similar to what happened at OpenAI … and Sam is the common denominator at both.
I mean maybe it’s all a master plan of Sam’s, but that still requires the board to be dumb enough to literally fire him in the stupidest way possible and refuse to communicate anything about WHY. So maybe he made up something to give them the whole “not being candid” argument - call the bluff. Tell people why. If he lied or made up the meta lie of not being canid, then that’s great info to share. But they haven’t!
Sam said on a recent Joe Rogan episode that he can be a bit of a troll online and he felt some sort of discomfort with it. I do think Sam is probably sort of an asshole in certain situations (which means you’re an asshole but hide it well usually). But to be honest, most people are assholes when you push the right buttons.
Maybe one day there will be an even better long con.