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OpenAI's Sam Altman is the ultimate 'personality hire.' The industry is full of them.
AI is a field where hype is everything, and the personality hire reigns supreme. Just look at OpenAI's Sam Altman. He's the ultimate hype man.
What I do know is that the Silicon Valley investor class has become quite contemptuous of Effective Altruism(the school of thought that drove the Future Fund), and highly skeptical and suspicious of the associated focus on existential risk or "x-risk" now that it seems to be a retardant on their ambitions. drone.While the specifics of this C.V. are credibility-building among Aschenbrenner's target audience (investors and founders in whose companies he'd like to invest, as well as dupes on Twitter who will boost his profile), just as important is the image he fits: Young, prodigious, confident, fast-talking, able to speak fluidly on a range of subjects from geopolitics to epidemiology to chip design. If Aschenbrenner weren't a Zoomer I'd call him a millennial ambition psycho; certainly, he shares with the Ivy League sociopaths of my generation a cloying, manic self-assurance that somehow scans as "genius" to the credulous and the powerful and as "extremely annoying bullshit" to literally anyone else.
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