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> But I think we become too cynical at times.

Yeah, I think the same. But this:

> I don’t know how you can say anything bad about him.

still seems to me as the other extremity. I don't know about Sam Altman well enough to have my own opinion on him, but I employ this rule of thumb: if I don't understand how one can say anything bad about some person, then I'm definitely look at them through pink colored glasses, and it would be better for me to take them off. I can still believe that the person is a great person, but I need to have a full picture.

> We can learn to work with Sam and be grateful for the good he does anyway… even if he doesn’t care about us! But he is advocating UBI with his own money so I don’t mind him getting rich.

I cannot participate in this discussion because I have no opinion about Sam Altman. I see him as a just one more rich guy with plans to reformulate humanity.

I did fall for Musk several years ago, but then I started to read his twitter (while it still was twitter), I started to read people who knew Musk, I did read Liftoff by Eric Berger, and I became skeptical of Musk. Yeah, then I really was confused by the Musk's lack of skill of public speaking, and it took some time to learn that he never prepares to his speeches. I interpret this as a pathetic lack of self-criticism. Then Musk bought Twitter, he jumped into politics, while being extremely naive in politics and social science overall (with his pathetic lack of self-criticism he is probably naive about his naïveté), and... It is funny to compare the picture of Musk I had in my head before I started digging with the picture of Musk I have now.

How Sam Altman is different? From my perspective he looks pretty similar to my old picture of Musk, I know only good things of him, and there are some critics that have nothing substantial to say.

So I cannot participate in this discussion, because I have no opinion about Sam Altman.



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