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> I consider sama to be an extraordinary investor and thinker (I know this is the most consensus thing one could say on HN).

Yeah I'm gonna disagree with you there. These are some of the things he's said over the years

"I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco"

"This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics."

http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove

"US growth has stagnated while Chinese growth has continued to do pretty well. The US has become less competitive globally"

"The current business model of the US requires the dollar to be the world reserve currency, though the Chinese currency is rapidly becoming a viable alternative"

"The other stark contrast is how much harder people in China seem to work than people here, and how working hard is considered a good thing, not a bad thing."

https://blog.samaltman.com/china

The Chinese government should probably check the drinking water as well then...

"it is acknowledged that nearly 14 percent of the city's sewage is discharged into rivers which serve as Shanghai's water sources without being treated."

https://www.healthandsafetyinshanghai.com/shanghai-water.htm...

"At least a million tonnes of raw sewage pours into the waters of Guangdong’s Pearl River Delta in southern China every day...Air pollution is so obvious that everyone can see it,” he said. “But the water problem has not had enough public attention.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/20...