They put their names to their position publicly. That is meaningful action.
replyWell, some did. I was surprised to see so many anonymous signatories.
replyOnly 600 from Google and 93 from OpenAI? And many of those anonymous? Truly our industry is full of cowards and complicit people.
replyThey wrote a letter. Meaningless. How many are going to quit their highly compensated jobs over it?
replyQuitting their jobs? How is that the pragmatic or effective response?
replyHow would it be pragmatic to say, "oh well!" and continue working there?
replyQuitting no. Quite quitting or internal turmoil could be beneficial. Of course, in case these people meaningfully contributed in the first place otherwise it's a good pretext to fire for cause without any severance.
replyMaybe their union will call a strike
replyHa! Good one!
replyYou don’t need a union to quiet quit or throw a shoe.
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