samaltmanfried

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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
I got put on a PIP once. It happened because a project I was leading suffered from a huge scope blowout in the 11th hour, and I missed the deadline. To be honest, it actually really hurt my self-esteem. I had a pretty hard time dealing with
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
Isn't it better to leave on the best terms possible? In my career I've sometimes needed to get references from my last few positions to get offered my next one. Wearing out everyone's good will while you run out the clock doe
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
Do you think high school students are qualified to decide for themselves whether they'll need math later in life? I never imagined having the kind of career I ended up with. I always thought I'd work as a writer. I ended up as a s
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
> I also personally don't want to live in a world where a significant portion of people don't know basic history... I think you've already been living in that world for a while now. I'm having trouble finding it right
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
You're far more likely to become infected with T.gondii from eating rare meat than you are from having a pet cat. Infection is more highly correlated with diet than cat ownership, with populations from countries which eat more rare mea
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
I'm in my early 40s. When I first learned programming it felt like I was breaking into some kind of cool subculture, with its own counterculture folklore and customs. 'Programming culture' seems to have shifted from 'Hac
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
I can only think of one other tech CEO that managed to become as universally loathed as Altman in so quick a time, and that's Mark Zuckerberg. However even Zuckerberg somehow manages to seem more trustworthy than Altman.