Also, I don’t know that I’ve said this, but from reading enough of his public tweets, I had blocked Sam Altman long ago. He seemed very political in how he used speech, and so I didn’t want to include him in my direct memetic sphere.
As a small pointer to why: he would commonly choose not to share object-level information about something, but instead share how he thought social reality should change. I think I recall him saying that the social consensus was wrong about fusion energy, and pushed for it to move in a specific direction; he did this rather than just plainly say what his object level beliefs about fusion were, or offer a particular counter-argument to an argument that was going around.
It’s been a year or two since I blocked him, so I don’t recall more specifics, but it seemed worth mentioning, as a datapoint for folks to include in their character assessments.
Also, I don’t know that I’ve said this, but from reading enough of his public tweets, I had blocked Sam Altman long ago. He seemed very political in how he used speech, and so I didn’t want to include him in my direct memetic sphere.
As a small pointer to why: he would commonly choose not to share object-level information about something, but instead share how he thought social reality should change. I think I recall him saying that the social consensus was wrong about fusion energy, and pushed for it to move in a specific direction; he did this rather than just plainly say what his object level beliefs about fusion were, or offer a particular counter-argument to an argument that was going around.
It’s been a year or two since I blocked him, so I don’t recall more specifics, but it seemed worth mentioning, as a datapoint for folks to include in their character assessments.