OpenAI's Adrien Ecoffet argues the Long-Term Future Fund funded opposition to candidate Bores to avoid admitting a campaign mistake

I don’t think it’s crazy to argue, btw, that LTF should have put its weight behind Bores. Bores was ultimately the centrist on AI. The victor, Lasher, is in fact more radical on AI than Bores. LTF’s “victory” here is that a guy who supports a data-center moratorium won, and the guy who supports frontier transparency and auditing (which LTF now supports!) lost. Is that really a win?

Talk about involution. I do hope the AI-optimist side of this gets its act together.

Thanks to @phutrick for pointing this out to me!