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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 03:13:35 JST Aral Balkan

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   Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage-hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications. (2/2)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 03:13:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Kim Perales

     @KimPerales Alt text:

     4. Naughtiness
     Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination. (1/2)

   • Kim Perales (kimperales@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 03:13:37 JST Kim Perales

     I believe many #Tech execs (& many of their enablers) are evil & diabolical, & they only care about their bottom line, esp. #Zuck, #Musk, #Altman...:

     "Paul Graham wrote an essay in 2010 about how the best founders are naughty because they break the rules.

     Then he has an interesting anecdote about Sam Altman...

     Interesting lens through which to view why OpenAI keeps showing up in the news for doing obviously bad things."
     -buccocapital

     #AI #SocialMedia #Media #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spyware