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OpenAI founded as non-profit. Sam Altman goes on Joe Rogan Podcast and says he does not really care about money. Sam gets caught driving around Napa in a $4M exotic car. OpenAI turns into for-profit. 3/4 of founding team dips out.

Sketchy.

This whole silicon valley attitude of fake effective altruism, "I do it for the good of humanity, not for the money (but I actually want a lot of money)" fake bullshit is so transparent and off-putting.

@sama, for the record - I am not saying making is a bad thing. Labor and talent markets should be efficient. But when you pretend to be altruistic when you are obviously not, then you come off hypocritical instead of altruistic. Sell out.




Couldn't find the JRE clip, but here's a recent one where he says "I don't really need more money." This is how I always understood it, he's already worth billions from past ventures, what difference does a stake in OpenAI make?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScOZzzXnDA


Regarding the 4 million dollar car, Sam already made a ton of money from Reddit and being President of YC.


Liking and buying expensive cars is not wrong.

But buying a $4M car while saying you do not car about money is a mis-alignment between words and actions, which comes off untrustworthy.


Maybe he meant he doesn’t care about it so he wastes it on super expensive things. Simple definitional misunderstanding


He never said he didn’t care about money, he said he didn’t care about making a lot more money at a point when he had tons of money.

Like you might say “I don’t really need another car we already have 8 at home between the two of us driving so why would I need a 9th?”


I swear the reason why we have so many sociopaths is because how goddamn easy it is to fool people, it’s like stealing candy from kids. Just put on the pseudo intellectual mask and say that you care deeply about grandeur issue X, and people will just believe you at face value, despite your entire track record showing you care only about power, money and status.




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