Right, but only because Altman got there first. Congratulations to him. But if he'd gone out for lunch on Monday, and somebody else rolled out their product Tu

Right, but only because Altman got there first. Congratulations to him. But if he'd gone out for lunch on Monday, and somebody else rolled out their product Tuesday, is the world really a worse place? It waited an extra 24 hours, but other than that the only effect is that somebody else got rich instead of him. We celebrate the guys who get rich, but I'm not convinced that they're really being rewarded for the uniqueness of their work, only the uniqueness of their ability to make themselves (and everybody around them) miserable. Which often bodes badly for the future: "I gave myself scurvy so that this company could be first to market, and now I expect all of you to pee in a bottle so that I don't have to hire more people". There's no way to stop people from working themselves and everybody else to death. But we can be skeptical about how crucial they are to technology. Their willingness to harm themselves is not connected to the innovation, which could well have occurred without them. Maybe just a few days later, and a little bit less worrisome.