person / likes
Ilya
“I do think one of the many things that I really love about Ilya is he takes AGI and the safety concerns, broadly speaking, including things like the impact this is going to have on society, very seriously.”
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Sam Altman
CEO · OpenAI
- Claims
- 128
- Episodes
- 5
- Shows
- 3
- Named items
- 2
Books, apps, and tools
The evidenced stack.
book / uses
The Mind of Napoleon
“In fact, the best book I read last year is called The Mind of Napoleon, which is a book of quotes about his views on everything.”
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What Sam said.
6 transcript-backed records
01 / preference
The cost of screen up is higher, so I like to spend more time getting to know the people before saying, “Okay, you’re just going to do this, and I’ll trust that it’ll work out.
“The cost of screen up is higher, so I like to spend more time getting to know the people before saying, “Okay, you’re just going to do this, and I’ll trust that it’ll work out.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Episode
- Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
02 / preference
Unlike hiring an executive where you need them to do one role well, the board needs to do a whole role of governance and thoughtfulness well, and so, one thing that Brett says which I really like is that we want to hire board members in slates, not as individuals one at a time.
“Unlike hiring an executive where you need them to do one role well, the board needs to do a whole role of governance and thoughtfulness well, and so, one thing that Brett says which I really like is that we want to hire board members in slates, not as individuals one at a time.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / preference
I’m sure there’s an ad unit that makes sense for LLMs, and I’m sure there’s a way to participate in the transaction stream in an unbiased way that is okay to do, but it’s also easy to think about the dystopic visions of the future where you ask ChatGPT something and it says, “Oh, you should think about buying this product,” or, “You should think about going here for your vacation,” or whatever. And I don’t know, we have a very simple business model and I like it, and I know that I’m not the product.
“I’m sure there’s an ad unit that makes sense for LLMs, and I’m sure there’s a way to participate in the transaction stream in an unbiased way that is okay to do, but it’s also easy to think about the dystopic visions of the future where you ask ChatGPT something and it says, “Oh, you should think about buying this product,” or, “You should think about going here for your vacation,” or whatever. And I don’t know, we have a very simple business model and I like it, and I know that I’m not the product.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
04 / preference
I think internalizing, truly, deeply internalizing that most things in life are not as risky as they seem, most things in life are two-way doors — you can come back — and that even if people that you work with or in the press or whatever call you idiots and say, “Oh!
“I think internalizing, truly, deeply internalizing that most things in life are not as risky as they seem, most things in life are two-way doors — you can come back — and that even if people that you work with or in the press or whatever call you idiots and say, “Oh!”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
05 / preference
In some sense, the superhero I would most want to fund would be Batman because he doesn’t have superpowers, and he’s just a resourceful, driven dude to do the right thing.
“In some sense, the superhero I would most want to fund would be Batman because he doesn’t have superpowers, and he’s just a resourceful, driven dude to do the right thing.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
06 / preference
I think the way you become really great at venture capital is to accept that the only way to figure out the future of the world is to identify incredibly talented, smart, creative, original thinkers and back those people.
“I think the way you become really great at venture capital is to accept that the only way to figure out the future of the world is to identify incredibly talented, smart, creative, original thinkers and back those people.”
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler