"Hand-picked by so-and-so" used to have another name: "one of the good ole boys." Before that, in England, one was "sound." It's not a qualification, it's an

"Hand-picked by so-and-so" used to have another name: "one of the good ole boys." Before that, in England, one was "sound." It's not a qualification, it's an anointing. So we have "handing out money," OpenAI, a typical fusion outfit (breakeven next year, every year), and a cryptocurrency that has already been chased out of the one country that tried to adopt it. I like Sam Altman and he seems to be a genuine person with laudable goals, but OpenAI is the only place where he really seemed to deliver, and even then there are a lot of people unhappy with the non-profit/private subsidiary surprise structure.