I'm taking a sabbatical through end of year
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He might as well take the rest of the decade off.
In a modern academic sabbatical, researchers generally visit a different university and work on a problem adjacent to their regular research interest (there's a whole paper about this phenomenon: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1360080X.2022.2... )
Sounds more like a classic, 'period of rest', sabbatical. Seeing where someone from OpenAI goes on a modern sabbatical would be interesting.
They're all perfectly great and relevant people. I don't mean to dismiss them, just the posturing.
More productively, I just don't see the benefit. Modern intellectual property behavior makes this particularly adversarial. People like to be celebrities and build a brand, so it'd be LinkedIn but louder.
OpenAI: Cofounders Greg Brockman, John Schulman, along with others, to leave
No one "works" 20 hours a day.
I've worked in plenty of places that had an outage and required people to work together to get things operational. After 12 hours decisions are slow, usually deferred and the contributions nose dive and they get sent home.
Even CxO's who poke their heads in to interfere fuck off for most of the middle of the day, and are gone by 6. This guy is pretending to annoy 3 different shifts.