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Sam Altman interviewed about his plans to spend $1.4 Trillion

536 sats \ 11 comments \ @zuspotirko 1 Nov AI

Apparently, if you ask sama how his $13 billion money-losing for profit not-for-profit can support $1.4 TRILLION of spend commitments, he gets very defensive and starts to attack non-existent short sellers.

30 minutes after Sam shutdown Brad’s question about, “can you actually afford $1.4 TRILLION of spend,” Sam dropped off the pod.

The VERY FIRST thing Brad did w/ Satya after Sam left was return to the topic, defend his question, & reiterate he’s a buyer, not a seller, of OAI.

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60 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 1 Nov

Is ok, Deep Research told him about the short sellers.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 1 Nov

Some men will do anything to not buy bitcoin. Haha

104 sats \ 1 reply \ @Car 1 Nov

hell of an answer...

i think whats more interesting is the picture behind him

its of the STS-49, first and only 3 person space walk

Pierre Thuot, Rick Hieb, and Tom Akers, basically wrestled a 4,000+ kg satellite in microgravity while the shuttle flew formation with it at ~17,500 mph over Earth. That's like doing delicate neurosurgery on a motorcycle at highway speed.

STS-49, hubble space telescope was about to be written off as a billion dollar blurry mistake, and also the debut mission of space shuttle endeavour

STS-49 is the moment humans proved we could chase something already in space, grab it with our hands, fix it, and send it on its way and do it under pressure, with no backup plan.

i remember the blurry pictures and them attempting to fix it as a kid, but i didn't remember the 3 person space walk

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 1 Nov

rad!

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @rootmachine 2 Nov

Am I the only one looking at him like he is a kid not knowing 100% what he does but somehow pulling it off? Lucky star over his head. That's what I think.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko OP 2 Nov

You're right, it kinda does seem that way. If he was smarter he would avoid the spotlight. The idea of a mysterious Sama is much stronger than him bumbling through these interviews like that

11 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 1 Nov

I exist in the weird space of thinking: LLMs are useful, The future will have more LLMs not less. OpenAI really did change the world. And simultaneously that Sam is con-man adjacent.

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @steakneggs 2 Nov

Hard to trust the guy who came up with eyeball scan coin

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @lrm_btc 2 Nov

What did openAI do though? We already had llms before.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 2 Nov

Raised enough money to purchase enough hardware to launch them at scale.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 2 Nov

Sama is really so bad at this. He looked so guilty during the Tucker interview as well. Satya then proceeds to deliver a masterclass in public speaking.

Probably on tilt after Elon just trashed him on JRE and All-in podcasts earlier in the day.