• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    Who… even is Sam Altman?

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=XyI38Vp1PGw

    Oh, he’s basically a less lucky and somehow less competent version of Mark Zuckerberg.

    He doesn’t know anything like, theoretical or technical about AI, he has no expertise, he’s just a guy with a failed startup or two under his belt, who then become the hypeman for investing schemes/incubators.

    He, like many in the tech industry, just… acts like he knows what he is talking about, and… for quite a long time, people believed it.

    He’s basically a complete fraud, just, as a person, beyond all the literal financial fraud he’s orchestrated.

    • TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      less lucky

      According to that video he made over a billion dollars from a $15,000 investment that only was available to him because some guy liked him

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      Hyping and pumping companies and stocks is the attribute our economy prizes above all else.

      Look at musk, what a genius the investors gush. It does not matter if it is dishonest, if the intrinsic value is way below what is thought. They only care what people think, not what is.

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        The essence of hollow idealism. False promises from malicious prophets in search of profits. “A shrewd businessman” we’re expected to call them, but the veneer wears thin.