Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends

Re:Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help... by BeefDinnerPurge on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:18PM (#38756473)

Tell me you don't understand conditional probability without telling me you don't understand conditional probability.

CEO of Reddit, how'd that go? Project Covalence, how'd that go? Andrew Yang? Our next president, right? 2018, The year Sam Altman became the governor of California, no? And of course: "I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israel Defense Forces, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to." - that aged well.

But he's now in a position where all his failures will be forgotten and his successes amplified forevermore (unless he buys a social media company, but he seems too smart for that so far). It is clear he has reached Jeff Dean levels of ridiculous hagiography though, but I guess worshipping CEOs is a step up from worshipping invisible friends or stinky geriatric ex-presidents so there's that.

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Re:Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help... by wslh on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:59PM (#38756786)

Your answer is very rude. You don't differentiate power from business success.

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Re:Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help... by paulryanrogers on Monday December 25, 2023 @09:24PM (#38768411)

Why don't you?

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Re:Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help... by Vecr on Sunday December 24, 2023 @08:53PM (#38758867)

Getting IDF gas masks is not a sign he really knows what he's doing, why not MSA or Avon Rubber?

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Re:Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help... by BeefDinnerPurge on Monday December 25, 2023 @02:19PM (#38765275)

So that's totally on brand for sama, no? He runs with the herd because he has a great nose for where the herd is heading. But it's the crazy outliers who dig into stuff like this and find the best options. I suspect he doesn't have time for that nor would he make the time. Wonder what choices Zuck made for his $100M apocalypse man cave.

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Re:Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help... by stale2002 on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @02:59PM (#38775450)

The point being that a lot of people have connections, money, or whatever, but those people still don't end up with world changing successes.

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Re:Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help... by BeefDinnerPurge on Saturday December 30, 2023 @08:59PM (#38821098)

So many trust fund babies know how to just sit back and enjoy life instead, that's true.

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