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I wish I could appraise someone’s skill at something without that being considered as a general endorsement but I guess not. I don’t think Sam Altman is probab

• latexr 2y ago
  > I wish I could appraise someone’s skill at something without that being considered as a general endorsement but I guess not. Ironic[1] that that you’re lamenting a misunderstanding of your comment while misunderstanding mine. I don’t think you were generally endorsing him, my claim is that you’re giving him credit for a skill based on faulty assumptions. > But he must be alright at marketing and getting into the right places because we are talking about him. That’s what I disagree with. Would you say that Justine Sacco[2] was great at marketing too? For a while there everyone was talking about her, which she did not intend and didn’t end particularly well for her. Being talked about and being good at marketing don’t automatically correlate. Barbara Streisand knows that very well[3]. [1]: Or maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40507616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40507616 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming#Justine_Sacco_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming#Justine_Sacco_i... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect