Sam Altman, the guy behind eye-scanning-surveillance-WorldCoin and turning the OpenAI non-profit into a for-profit vehicle against the wishes of the donors đź‘Ź
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Personal attacks rarely result in a constructive argument. I met Sam personally and was quite impressed by our conversations.
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What personal attack?
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Telling people what he does is an attack because he does sketchy shit.
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Everyone can have interesting ideas, even if other ideas in the same brain are not as good.
I liked this write up in particular.
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Fully agreed.
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Eye scanning isn't surveillance, right? It's identification?
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Once a unique hash is associated with your being, you'll be surveillable even if mechanisms are in place to mitigate that.
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I found it a great read so wanted to share it as I think it might be of interest to some people here.
These are the discussed topics:
  1. Compound yourself
  2. Have almost too much self-belief
  3. Learn to think independently
  4. Get good at “sales”
  5. Make it easy to take risks
  6. Focus
  7. Work hard
  8. Be bold
  9. Be willful
  10. Be hard to compete with
  11. Build a network
  12. You get rich by owning things
  13. Be internally driven
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Putting at #12 what structurally is #1, especially when your ancestors started with it and gave it to you... Or if you hold bitcoin for a few years.
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Too much confidence and a little self delusion
Success requires believing your own hype
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Never take advice from shitcoin sam altman.
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I was going to say something snarky like "step 7, you can buy poor people's biometrics with a shitcoin" but this is actually a decent post.
real talk though, fuck worldcoin
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Reading “Success built to last” now, so this was a great complementary read. Left me pondering hard about my purpose and what gives me meaning
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In a blog post, Sam Altman, former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, outlines his 13 thoughts on how to achieve outlier success, drawing from his observations of successful founders and his own experiences. Altman stresses the importance of compounding oneself, having self-belief, thinking independently, becoming good at “sales,” taking risks, focusing, and working hard. He also emphasizes the need to be bold, willful, and internally driven, as well as the importance of building a strong network and getting rich by owning things. Finally, Altman advises individuals to define their own metrics for success and to start early in pursuing their goals.
autonote from dev: the input text for this summary had to be modified for ChatGPT to summarize it.
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Why are you gay?
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Thanks for testing! You helped me find a bug.
The tldr for this post was generated after removing all of the stopwords.
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too many tokens. will look into it
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Having the idea to top all ideas, with all the knowledge and background needed to manage the idea, but no idea how to look for an investor and to afraid to give up the idea in the process, for fear of treachery. This is my dilemma! Amazing post, I think everyone should see it, all though I’m still left in the dark!!
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Almost all great ideas get stolen and misattributed. If you're trying to change the world, you have to accept that it might happen to you. Edison didn't invent most of what he got credit for, Elon Musk didn't found Tesla, etc.
Finding good people to work with is the hardest part of almost everything in life, but the benefits compound. Literally no one is successful on their own.
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