He's saying the attempt to virtue signal, via the low salary, is invalidated by these deals. The virtues would be mostly altruism I guess, that the AGI mission was important enough to humanity for him to sacrifice opportunities to build personal wealth and so on. I think that's overblown personally, but certainly Altman would often repeat the line about having low salary and no equity.
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He's saying the attempt to virtue signal, via the low salary, is invalidated by these deals. The virtues would be mostly altruism I guess, that the AGI mission was important enough to humanity for him to sacrifice opportunities to build personal wealth and so on. I think that's overblown personally, but certainly Altman would often repeat the line about having low salary and no equity.
And it's a lot easy to even fake virtue signal your low salary when in the last three years you've bought:
a $27M home in San Francisco,
a $16M "weekend ranch" in Napa,
and a $43M estate in Hawaii.