people have 2 reasons to do things-- the real reason and the one the brain comes up to rationalize-- in this case the upvote. ask them, and you almost always ge

people have 2 reasons to do things-- the real reason and the one the brain comes up to rationalize-- in this case the upvote. ask them, and you almost always get the rationalized reason. do some thinking, and you can get the real one. maybe hn's audience of top-minds are actually just as human as the people who watched shakespearean tragedies 100s of years ago or people buying people magazine and other tabloids today. sam altman is a celebrity, [was] one of the most powerful and important figures in the direction of AI (even if he didn't develop it), and this was his (imo hopefully temporary) tragic fall.