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PG seems to absolutely love him. It's really hard to reconcile the parts of this story.
by wmf 3y ago
PG seems to absolutely love him. It's really hard to reconcile the parts of this story.
- hackerlight 3y ago> PG seems to absolutely love him It doesn't serve PG's interests to say otherwise. Sam Altman is part of the YC brand so his reputation is valuable to YC and to PG's net worth. And he's no longer running YC.
- gwern 3y agoIt's unclear to what extent those statements & tweets you read as 'absolutely loving him' really are 'loving him' (as opposed to very British sardonic commentaries & backhanded compliments of the sort that exuberant Yanks routinely misread); see the prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383641