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Sam Altman

What Sam Altman thinks about social media

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  1. Our readingSniping at people who are trying to build things is morally bankrupt and it damages the person doing it, however good the likes feel.

    Their wordsIt is very easy to go take shots on Twitter and make a sarcastic comment and get a lot of likes and feel like you're doing something really important and sticking it to the man and being like, "Gary, haha, I got you, you idiot." Um, and and it will poison your soul. It is a morally bankrupt thing to do.

    ↗Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"youtube.com 10th of 20 in this recording

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  3. Our readingSocial media has had both positive and negative effects on society.

    Their wordsSocial media has had some good effects on the world, but it's also had some bad ones.

    ↗Sora 2blog.samaltman.com 1st of 3 in this piece