Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedPaul Graham: uncertainty
9 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
“I don’t know what he meant by it, and I also don’t know what it’s like inside OpenAI, really.”
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- Paul Graham
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- uncertainty
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- 9 Aug 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…There’s a now-famous Sam tweet where he appears to repudiate his earlier advice of finding product-market fit early and then scaling, and saying, “Oh, maybe I was wrong saying that.” What OpenAI has done is not exactly that. Do you agree, disagree? Well, maybe OpenAI is a special case because you have to have giant warehouses full of GPUs. You can’t just mess around and throw something out there [laughs] and see if it works. Maybe it requires some amount of advanced planning for something on that scale. I don’t know. I don’t know what he meant by it, and I also don’t know what it’s like inside OpenAI, really. I don’t know either. Do you still take a dim view of solo founders?…
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