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Sam Altman: belief

27 Feb 2019 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent

“I think when you get those two forces together, fighting each other, it’s so bad.”

— Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
27 Feb 2019
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…What’s the most interesting or surprising thing you’ve learned or changed your mind about in the last three months? A lot of things, but one I had been thinking a lot about in the last three weeks is how, watching the US political system react from this cultural war on the right, and sort of this anti-otherness from a culture perspective, to this economic to this economic war on the left. I’ve studied this so many times in history, and I didn’t think it was actually going to happen. I think when you get those two forces together, fighting each other, it’s so bad. And I’ve updated myself to thinking, now, that things can actually get much worse in the US much more quickly than I thought. What does that process look like if it continues for 5, 10 years?…

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