Ed Zitron

What about Sam Altman is particularly exciting? Well, he's been rich before and his money made him even richer. That's pretty good. He was at Y Combinator. Don't ask too much about what happened there. just feels like sometimes Silicon Valley can't wipe its own ass. It can't see when there's a wolf amongst the sheep.

It can't see when someone isn't really part of the system other than finding new ways to manipulate and extract value from it. And Sam Altman is a monster created by Silicon Valley's sin.

It can't see when someone isn't really part of the system other than finding new ways to manipulate and extract value from it. And Sam Altman is a monster created by Silicon Valley's sin.

It can't see when someone isn't really part of the system other than finding new ways to manipulate and extract value from it. And Sam Altman is a monster created by Silicon Valley's sin.

And their sin, by the way, is empowering and elevating those who don't build software, which in turn has led to the greater sin of allowing the tech industry to drift away from fixing the problems of actual human beings.

And their sin, by the way, is empowering and elevating those who don't build software, which in turn has led to the greater sin of allowing the tech industry to drift away from fixing the problems of actual human beings.

And their sin, by the way, is empowering and elevating those who don't build software, which in turn has led to the greater sin of allowing the tech industry to drift away from fixing the problems of actual human beings.

Sam Altman's manipulative little power plays have been so effective because so many of the power players in venture capital and the public markets and even tech companies are disconnected from the process of building things, of building software and hardware, and that makes them incapable or perhaps unwilling to understand that Sam Altman is leading them to a deeply desolate place.

Sam Altman's manipulative little power plays have been so effective because so many of the power players in venture capital and the public markets and even tech companies are disconnected from the process of building things, of building software and hardware, and that makes them incapable or perhaps unwilling to understand that Sam Altman is leading them to a deeply desolate place.

Sam Altman's manipulative little power plays have been so effective because so many of the power players in venture capital and the public markets and even tech companies are disconnected from the process of building things, of building software and hardware, and that makes them incapable or perhaps unwilling to understand that Sam Altman is leading them to a deeply desolate place.

And on some level, it's kind of impressive how he succeeded in bending these fools to his whims, to the point that executives like Sundar Pichai of Google are willing to break Google's search in pursuit of this next big hype cycle created by Sam Altman.

And on some level, it's kind of impressive how he succeeded in bending these fools to his whims, to the point that executives like Sundar Pichai of Google are willing to break Google's search in pursuit of this next big hype cycle created by Sam Altman.

And on some level, it's kind of impressive how he succeeded in bending these fools to his whims, to the point that executives like Sundar Pichai of Google are willing to break Google's search in pursuit of this next big hype cycle created by Sam Altman.

He might not create anything, but he's excellent at spotting market opportunities, even if these opportunities involve him transparently lying about the technology he creates, all while having his nasty little boosters further propagate this bullshit, mostly because they don't know. Or perhaps they don't care if Sam Orton's full of shit. Maybe it doesn't matter to them.

He might not create anything, but he's excellent at spotting market opportunities, even if these opportunities involve him transparently lying about the technology he creates, all while having his nasty little boosters further propagate this bullshit, mostly because they don't know. Or perhaps they don't care if Sam Orton's full of shit. Maybe it doesn't matter to them.

He might not create anything, but he's excellent at spotting market opportunities, even if these opportunities involve him transparently lying about the technology he creates, all while having his nasty little boosters further propagate this bullshit, mostly because they don't know. Or perhaps they don't care if Sam Orton's full of shit. Maybe it doesn't matter to them.

It doesn't matter that Google search is still plagued with nonsensical AI answers that sometimes steal other people's work, or that AI in legal research has been proven to regularly hallucinate. Which, by the way, is a problem that's impossible to fix. It's all happening because AI is the new thing that can be sold to the markets.

It doesn't matter that Google search is still plagued with nonsensical AI answers that sometimes steal other people's work, or that AI in legal research has been proven to regularly hallucinate. Which, by the way, is a problem that's impossible to fix. It's all happening because AI is the new thing that can be sold to the markets.

It doesn't matter that Google search is still plagued with nonsensical AI answers that sometimes steal other people's work, or that AI in legal research has been proven to regularly hallucinate. Which, by the way, is a problem that's impossible to fix. It's all happening because AI is the new thing that can be sold to the markets.

And it's all happening because Sam Altman, intentionally or otherwise, has created a totally hollow hype cycle. And all of this is thanks to Sam Altman and a tech industry that's lost its ability to create things worthy of an actual hype cycle, to the point that this spacious, non-technical manipulator can lead it down this nasty, ugly, offensive, anti-tech path.