In the interest of helping avoid an echo chamber, would you mind giving some of the things you like about current Altman?

I'd love to hear something positive about the current Altman, too. Anything would be good.

For me, it’s the technical results. Same as for Musk.

Tesla accelerated us forward into the electric car age. SpaceX revolutionized launches.

OpenAI added some real startup oomph to the AI arms race which was dominated by megacorps with entrenched products that they would have disrupted only slowly.

So these guys are doing useful things, however you feel about their other conduct. Personally I find the gross political flip-flops hard to stomach.

Why would you support someone you said was part of a racket in the sentence before?

Why don't people realize that the chumps in these rackets are themselves? The news is not a TV show...

I do not support the runner of the racket (Trump). The victims of the racket who are forced to comply are who I'm sympathizing with.

I don't support the mafia, but I sympathize with the local store that pays the mafia its racket dues to avoid being ransacked.

In your model, the underboss is a victim of the don?

It's just the cost of doing business. Sam Altman isn't Trump's underboss. In this scenario that would be David Sacks or Elon Musk or something.