"a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone"

yet another pseudo-engineer sociopath mythologized by a lazy tech access press

gosh, perhaps there's lessons to be learned there (again)

April 07, 2026 - 12:02 UTC

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Is he actually a techie or just a marketing-spin guy?
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like Musk his chief talent is opportunism, but the tech press mythologized him as some sort of genius entrepreneur
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He's not technical. He's an executive fabulist, which is a bit of a different breed than the marketing types.

Marketing types lie about products they sell. Executives lie about products they may make in the future.
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"The fake it til you make it" myth can have real f'ing consequences.
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yeah they just keep failing upward until people's heads come clean off, apparently
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Two things can be true at once: we should not trust Sam Altman nor anyone who works for him.
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Engineering students should take 3 years of humanities classes so they can learn to think broadly before they're put to work, says the computer programmer with 2 art degrees.
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100%

I always enjoy how hostile these guys are to the humanities, when it's very obvious they'd avoid most of their pitfalls if they'd paid attention in class
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We did in Quebec, where I got my BEng in Software.
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Sadly short term economic gains will blind us to long term damage.
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Unfortunately all too common. When one has zero sense of shame and will say anything to close the next roundโ€ฆ
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The only good billionaires are the ones in the cemetery
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Or that the pos believes this statistical tool is going to achieve sentience
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An ugly, POS criminal taking credit for his engineers' work is actually a self-obsessed moron with a venal 'philosophy'?
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he always looks like he's been caught doing something he shouldn't be doing...
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He's evil. Watch Blade Runner. We don't need Ai ,nor FSD. Machine learning and if you don't feel like driving call a cab or catch a bus.
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One of those people that ramble on and on and when he finally does stop talking you think to yourself, wtf did he just say?
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it's just a mish mash of stale sci-fi tropes, usually
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Iโ€™ve never trusted him!
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I don't trust any of those t-shirt-wearing smarty-pants tech billionaires.
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Under no circumstances is Altman to be trusted. Where on this earth is there any reason to trust a venture capitalist, at any time, under any consideration?!?!
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Are you trying to tell me that some TechBro CEO is venal and amoral?
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All broligarchs need to be removed.
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I think it would be for the best
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Broligarch.
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Heโ€™s the Elizabeth Holmes of AI
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Altman can shove his head up his ass and suffocate on his own bullshit. That fucking sociopath shouldn't be trusted with safety scissors at this point
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Wait, this guy doesn't even have a computer science degree? Or any degree?
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A lot of the world (including me) are very sick of Tech Bros and what they represent.
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How do we create a world when dicks like this are at the top of the 'food chain' when in reality it should be farmers, trades etc, the actual human survival stuff. This isn't sustainable allowing losers to run it.
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And we were so close. Sam Altman was fired by his own Board, only to be reinstated a few days later. What a shame.
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coulda woulda
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It seems clear to me that most if not all of these psychopathic "tech bros" would be serial killers if there was any money in it.
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They did try to fire him and he has his own little club that was going to follow him to whatever else he would move to.
He is some high functioning psychopath who uses verbal judo to disarm people and get money but he is treated like a visionary.
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Mostly drawn from this www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
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โ€œOverall, insiders painted Altman as a people-pleaser who tells others what they want to hearโ€ so basically he is his product
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I wonder if he is hiding in his bunker today along with Zuckerburg.
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People throw around the term sociopath to liberally. Heโ€™s just capitalist. THIS IS WHAT THEY ALL DO WHEN THE SYSTEM ONLY REWARDS WHITE MEN LYING, RAPING, AND PILLAGING.
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This comment's casual sexism and racism undermine its valid point that economics selects for sociopaths.
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Oh, surprise. The rapist of his own sister is not a good guy. How come?
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In the dystopian movie, these are the moments in the flashback when the protagonist is explaining how it all went wrong because they believed the villain's lies.
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I personally love how the proposed solution is to create a wealth fund that would support universal basic income, and they we shouldn't tax them or put any constraints on AI, oh no, because it'd endanger that fund that they pinkie-swear they'll definitely really create for sure.
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real Lucy football shit, yes

when the time to deliver UBI comes they'll be off on their islands hiding out
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Maybe the original Board that fired Altman was on to something?
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#KetamineClass of #Broligarchy

youtu.be/pnJM_jC7j_4?si=ntFIAypFForitini
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The first question when granting permits for Datacenters should be: how is this goong to benefit the local population 5, 10, 15 and 20 years from now.

If the long term benefits are not enough. Permits should bot even be considered
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Also, talking to a professor in engineering ethics. AI adoption should be that if AI enhances productivity, companies to maintain the same number of employees under reduced hours, and salaries to be cut at a rate that still increases profitability but much less than the hours cut.
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This would truly bring AI benefits to all within the capitalist extractive model we live under.
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Tech bros are always the most inhuman, uncanny-valley looking dorks.
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bsky.app/profile/cv-danes.com/post/3mh6wjoe7yc23
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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Every pilot out there has the opportunity to leave his ass stranded.
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I mean, look at the dude.
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The problem is oligarchy, particularly tech broligarchs, and the belief that "AI" will unlock the ability to achieve neoroyalty.

The entire oligarchy must die. Irredeemable.
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If certain people are too immature to know not to be seduced by a bunch of silicon and logic gates, then are they responsible enough to have the right to learn any truths?
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one red flag (for me) was the repeated way he pretends in interviews that he's not directly involved in the problems he causes
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also it's uncanny how he just never shuts up
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Any thoughts on why stargate hasnโ€™t been bombed yet? Maybe they waiting until itโ€™s finished so it hurts more?
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I donโ€™t know. For some reason itโ€™s hard to trust a billionaire, particularly a tech bro.
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This really stood out to me the few times I have had the displeasure of hearing him speak. His strategy seems to be to agree every time a bad thing his companyโ€™s tech does is pointed out, as if that makes him sound reasonable, but then he implies someone else will figure out a solution.
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Or he never remembers the bullshit he's caused.
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Itโ€™s almost as if literally every tech CEO is, and has always been, an unhinged sociopath who is perpetually high off of huffing their own farts

โ€œHow did people raise kids before ChatGPT?โ€

Idk Sam, how do I make it through the day knowing you donโ€™t exist on the bottom of the ocean? We all struggle
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Sam can start a large deep underwater band with other tech bros.
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