Resolves once we have credible confirmation one way or the other
'Physically trapped' is used in a serious sense, e.g being locked in a room for weeks or more, and does not include things like 'someone locked him in his office briefly once as a joke'
mods may resolve if there's conclusive evidence
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Resolved to no, see https://openai.com/index/jakub-pachocki-announced-as-chief-scientist/ and https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1790517455628198322
@TheAllMemeingEye He hasn't had any public comments or interactions since December, and my understanding of the ['theological'/'spiritual'/'religious'] culture at OpenAI (as ASI is cosmically significant) suggests to me that this is something that those in the upper ranks might do.
The main reasons I can see for them doing this are
to prevent Ilya from using exclusive knowledge (e.g algorithmic insights, methods for superintelligence creation) gained during his tenure at OpenAI
to prevent Ilya from raising alarm
@TheAllMemeingEye He's on twitter at https://twitter.com/ilyasut, but I don't think he'd reply. I'll try emailing him.
(Also I somehow forgot to mention that he does have a twitter like on a Jan 15 post, which does make it less likely to me, but the absence is still suspicious to me)
@anonymous would it make sense to expand the question to include non-physical trapping such as threats and blackmail?