Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: belief
18 Mar 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI
“Nuclear fission, I think, is also quite amazing, and I hope as a world we can re-embrace that.”
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- Sam Altman
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- belief
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- 18 Mar 2024
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…Who’s going to solve that? I think Helion’s doing the best work, but I’m happy there’s a race for fusion right now. Nuclear fission, I think, is also quite amazing, and I hope as a world we can re-embrace that. It’s really sad to me how the history of that went, and hope we get back to it in a meaningful way. So to you, part of the puzzle is nuclear fission? Like nuclear reactors as we currently have them? And a lot of people are terrified because of Chernobyl and so on?…
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