It's far too early to say Sam Altman has succeeded at anything. We must imagine "replacement Sam Altman" who does the same things with the same resources and ob

It's far too early to say Sam Altman has succeeded at anything. We must imagine "replacement Sam Altman" who does the same things with the same resources and obtains lesser outcomes, or totally fails. There's a Sam Altman replacement middle manager out there who only got the job because of nepotism, one of them barely pays his rent because his parents cut him off, the other one died of a bad trip of psychedelics in college, etc. If success of this scale were repeatable we'd have bottled lightning for sale like it was Coca Cola. If people had such a formula they'd keep it just as secret.