alt Hacker NewsHe is a pretty interesting case. According to the book "Empire of AI" about OpenAI, he lies constantly, even about things that are too trivial to matter. So it may be part of some compulsive behavior.
And when two people want different things from him, he "resolves" the conflict by agreeing with each of them separately, and then each assumes they got what they wanted, until they talk to the other person and find out that nothing was resolved.
Really not a person who is qualified to run a company, except the constant lying is good for fundraising and PR.
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Saw Empire of AI in a bookshop recently but held off buying as wasn’t sure if it was going to be surface level. You’d recommend?
> Really not a person who is qualified to run a company, except the constant lying is good for fundraising and PR.
For a brief moment I thought you were talking about Elon there
Not a case, society call them sociopaths. Witch includes power struggle, manipulation and physiological abuse of the people around them.
Example, Sam Altman and OpenAI hoarding 40% of the RAM supply as unprocessed wafers stored in warehouses bought with magical bubble investors money in GPUs that don't exist yet and that they will not be able to install because there's not enough electricity to feed such botched tech, in data centers that are still to be built, with intention to punch the competence supply, and all the people of the planet in the process along two years (at least).
Sounds like when people are politicking he just takes a “whatever” approach haha. That seems reasonable.
He was once a big pin in Y Combinator (I think kind of ran it?)... Paul Graham thought he was great for YC.
Interesting that he's got as far as he has with this issue. I don't think you can run a company effectively if you don't deal in truth.
Some of his videos have seemed quite bizarre as well, quite sarcastic about concerns people have about AI in general.