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Taking it a step further, building that infrastructure may contribute somewhat directly to limiting the other resources actual wars are being fought over. This
by kulahan 2y ago
Taking it a step further, building that infrastructure may contribute somewhat directly to limiting the other resources actual wars are being fought over.
This man needs to get out of his own head.
- throw_pm23 2y ago"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
- p1esk 2y agoSam’s ambitions are way beyond “salary”.
- kevinob11 2y agoReplace salary with the thing he wants
- p1esk 2y agoMaybe he wants to make the world a better place?
- throw_pm23 2y agoMaybe :)
- willturman 2y agoIt's a quote from Upton Sinclair from an era where you generally had to have a profitable business and employees before you had investors.
- novok 2y agoThere were many ventures in the past that got investors without a current profitable going concern. Oil & mining speculation, chartering boat crews to go on exploration expeditions and more.
- Terr_ 2y agoIndeed, public investment was born from large projects where any profit would be many years off.
- fragmede 2y agoI know theres this whole joke about being pre-revenue on the Silicon Valley TV show, but getting investors in order to be able to build a business which becomes profitable after goes back a long time. Like a really long time.
- vundercind 2y agoI think it’s misunderstanding the guy’s whole deal to expect truth or reality to be major factors in his writing. “Sell, sell, sell!” is the goal above all else. Sell whatever he’s invested in today. Sell himself. Sell!
- bbor 2y agoYou’re honestly convinced that he’s faking this level of futurism? I’m happy to see people call him wrong, maybe even defend him on a few point, but calling him dishonest on this central point seems irrational. Ditto for someone I personally have absolutely 0 respect for: Elon Musk. They are both honestly convinced that AI is incredibly important in the short-medium term, IMO - they just want to own the fix and be the hero.
- vundercind 2y agoHe might find the hype cycle itself entertaining and engaging, but I doubt he’s taking it seriously. I think he’d be worse at his job if he did.
- bloppe 2y agoIs Sam Altman generally considered good at his job? OpenAI hasn't really come up with any groundbreaking breakthroughs (transformers came from Google and diffusion came from academia) and they definitely do not make a profit or have any concrete plan to become profitable. He's really good at raising gargantuan amounts of money, but that's not enough to be considered a good founder.
- vundercind 2y ago> He's really good at raising gargantuan amounts of money As far as what he does for others, that seems to be his entire job from what I can tell. Just going by what he visibly does.
- nickfromseattle 2y ago> Is Sam Altman generally considered good at his job? No credit for popularizing the current generation of AI, kicking off $hundreds of billions in CapEx spends, and for more concrete achievements, leading the fastest company to hit 100m users / $1b ARR?