Amodei says nothing he says in DVQ talks counts as a decision, so he can speak freely without staff acting on offhand remarks.
The two rules of DVQs are that, one, nothing I say is an actual decision. That allows me to just speak freely, you know, without worrying that if I, you know, if I briefly mentioned doing X, that 20 people will go off and do X, it's like the CEO said it, we're going to do X