The Bloomberg podcast series 'Foundering – The OpenAI Story' is quite insightful in regard to Sam Altman's psyche.
There are five episodes, first is here:
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2024
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He will get that. The ultra rich ignore all healthy limits.
You can buy a lot of Twitters for that money
I've heard someone call it billionaire brain rot. I think at some point you end up with so much money and not enough people telling you no, that it literally changes your brain.
Seems likely.
I think it's also likely that it's very hard to amass billions unless you already have some sort of brain rot.
Imagine never hearing the word "No." as a complete sentence ever again in your life.
Or when you do just assuming you can override them eventually
We had a guy like that at work, he said basically "how far above you do I have to go to get what I want"
That's not a bad power to have if you use it for good
He wanted a second laptop dock for home when we had limited supply and not everyone had one yet
This guy is losing touch of reality
I know musk is bipolar. Is Altman too?
Bipolar can cause this kind of request. It's called a delusion of grandiosity.
I think it's a delusion of grandeur.
Yes I think your right
Oh wow I didn't actually know he was bipolar (checked to confirm it is the case). I knew he was on the autism spectrum.
I can't imagine those 2 play nice together.
My wife is both bipolar and autistic and Musk is just as unfathomable to her as he is to me. The two things clash in some regards but his shittiness is his own.
Power kills people, only they keep walking and talking after that
Well the insane amount of random drugs he's taking don't help either.
$7trillion is three times the GDP if Brazil. It is bigger then the US federal budget. Seriously it is insane.
A-and all that money is basically scammed out of hype over something that won't be the thing people think it will be, because that would be a magic wand for everything.
When they mean artificial intelligence, they mean some kind of self-designing civilization, except it does their bidding. Goethe's Zauberlehrling comes to mind.
And a lot of money does find a way to do things, just like a lot of effort applied does find a way to break something. Except the curves are not linear, and no amount of effort and money has allowed us to settle Mars yet.
This guy is an absolute lunatic.
"Gimme all of the world's money several times over for this fancy T9 that I'm playing with."
If someone wrote a cartoon villain using his quotes, it would be dismissed as unbelievable and rubbish.
The climate? What climate? Who cares about the climate?
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