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gsf_emergency_2 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start supe...

It's not that he needs a Sam Altman, but that he cannot be Sam Altman (for path-dependent reasons related to his standing in international politics),
not any advantage in virtue (or vices, for that matter)

In national politics, Sam is toe to toe with Elon,which is to say, not great, not terrible

mcmcmc 32 days ago [–]

> In national politics, Sam is toe to toe with Elon,which is to say, not great, not terrible

That’s quite the stretch, Elon is now PNG with the MAGA crowd and was already reviled by the left

gsf_emergency_2 32 days ago | [–]

PNG may not be a stretch, but so isn't the purported health of Sam's local ambitions? :)

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