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if she's hiring for her own team why does she need to use someone else's email?

Your mistake is viewing this as "someone else's email" instead of a communication medium for certain types of messaging. Similar to how `webmaster@` can be used by anyone attached to the role.

Every organization sets up something like this once they grow past a certain point.

and that's what it was and not a fact you're imagining right now for the sake of argument? because what i heard is she used an executive's email address improperly, which she says she did for recruiting.

If you have worked in a sufficiently big org this would have been normal to you. Executive assistants send mail which purports to come from the executive himself. That is the kinda thing which happened here.

But "executive assistant" is not the same as "safety researcher". Even if it's normal for the former, it is weird for the latter.

everyone who's replied to me has a slightly different idea of what happened, and none of them really fit the claims that have been made by the parties involved, nor do they fit together.

so do you have some kind of inside knowledge about what happened? if so can you give more details about how exactly she improperly used an executive's email? what did she send and to whom, i wonder. and if you don't have any inside information, could you reflect on what motivates you to defend openai here?

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