We can't let the techbros control our brains.
...our brains. AI has so much possibility, it can't all go through what's best for Sam Altman's trillion dollar business.
Topic: Sam Altman
11 chunks · 10 episodes
1.9x burst in 2025 Q2
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- Sam Altman appears in 11 chunks across 10 episodes, from 2025-03-24 to 2026-07-06.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 6/16/25 (2025-06-16), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with china, sycosocial relationship, and Copilot, while by chunk count it sits between knowhow and llms allow; its yearly rank moved from #86 in 2025 to #93 in 2026.
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This week in the Wild West roundup:
...ail and couldn't stop it. Bloomberg: OpenClaw might be a security nightmare for Sam Altman. OpenAI Dev's Crypto AI Agent Accidentally Sends 5% Memecoin Supply in $250K Mistake. OpenClaw Vulnerability: Website-to-Local Agent Takeover. RogueP...
Agents scurrying over your data when you aren't looking are like cockroaches.
.... When they're someone else's it's icky and disgusting. Especially when they're Sam Altman's! But when they're your cockroaches it's much less disgusting. That's one reason ChatGPT can't do proactive agent swarms on your data… it would be t...
When Apps in GPT launched, Sam Altman did an interview on Stratechery.
When Apps in GPT launched, Sam Altman did an interview on Stratechery. He said something along the lines of "We could have done the Zillow features ourselves… but we wanted to do somethin...
I loved this riff on the Pelican+baby meme about ChatGPT and your data:
...k of big data. AI system yes a place for a data put data in AI System can trust Sam Altman for giveing good love to data. friend AI."
The form factor of chatbots fundamentally leads to weird sycosocial outcomes.
...us into acting like the LLM is a person. If you look at the responses to any of Sam Altman's tweets now, it's mostly people saying things like "The new version of ChatGPT feels like you murdered my friend." Even if the chatbot providers wan...
An insightful take from Grace Shao in Exponential view on the US and China in AI:
...lt-like obsession in the pursuit of AGI. As Karen Hao recounts in Empire of AI, Sam Altman and his peers see AGI as a world‑changing force capable of solving humanity's most significant challenges. The wager is long, deep‑pocketed and propr...
I read Sam Altman's The Gentle Singularity with great interest.
I read Sam Altman's The Gentle Singularity with great interest. I have Thoughts[ip], which I'll share in more detail soon. But overall while I resonate with much of th...
Consumer businesses tend to be pulled inexorably towards engagement and ads.
...taneous force. It slowly eroded in the sandstorm of A/B experiments and tweaks. Sam Altman today has made it very clear he's against ads in ChatGPT. I asked a collection of plugged in and savvy friends what the chance was that ChatGPT would...
If it's the operating system for your life, then losing access to it would be like losing a hemisphere of your brain.
...re of your brain. It has to be something you can control. At the Sequoia summit Sam Altman clearly wants to bind users' context to their model. If you haven't seen it, make sure you see the Black Mirror season 7 episode Common People for a ...
Is AI the product or the input to the product?
...oduct or the input to the product? I think AI as transistors is the right comp. Sam Altman apparently agrees. AI is not the product for any but the most advanced users. AI is the input that allows new kinds of products to be made.