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Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by Aeolun on Saturday October 05, 2024 @09:43AM (#41749777)
If you need someone to tell you the truth you don’t need a CEO.

What you need a CEO for is to sell you (and your investors) a vision.

Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by hn72774 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @10:10AM (#41749994)
Without the truth, a vision is a hallucination.

It saddens me how easily someone with money and influence can elevate themselves to a quasi religious figure.

In reality, this vision you speak of is more like the blind leading the blind.

Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by squarefoot on Saturday October 05, 2024 @10:15AM (#41750037)
> It saddens me how easily someone with money and influence can elevate themselves to a quasi religious figure.

If so many people wouldn't fall for claims without any proof, religions themselves would not exist.

Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by ergonaught on Saturday October 05, 2024 @10:38AM (#41750194)
All knowledge is incomplete and partial, which is another way of saying "wrong", therefore all "vision" is hallucination. This discussion would not be happening without hallucinators with a crowd sharing their delusion. Humanity generally doesn't find the actual truth sufficiently engaging to accomplish much beyond the needs of immediate survival.
Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by Aeolun on Saturday October 05, 2024 @09:44PM (#41754114)
> In reality, this vision you speak of is more like the blind leading the blind.

If you want to call it suckering suckers into parting with their money that works too.

It’s not all that different from crypto.

Progress depends on irrational people though. Even if 50 companies fail for every one that succeeds, that’s progress.

Re:It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word by llamaimperative on Saturday October 05, 2024 @09:57AM (#41749883)
This is silly. Delusion kills more companies than facing reality with honesty does.