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Sam Altman

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Follow the rules, Sam. I grew up as a very online kid. I'd spent a huge amount of time chatting with people back in the days where you did it on a computer and you could log off Instant Messenger at some point. And I never capitalized there. As I think most internet kids didn't. Or maybe they still don't, I don't know. And Actually, this is like โ€“ now I'm like really trying to reach for something.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

But I think capitalization has gone down over time. Like if you read like old English writing, they capitalized a lot of random words in the middle of sentences, nouns and stuff that we just don't do anymore. I personally think it's sort of like a dumb construct that we capitalize the letter at the beginning of a sentence and of certain names and whatever. But, you know, I don't โ€“ that's fine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

But I think capitalization has gone down over time. Like if you read like old English writing, they capitalized a lot of random words in the middle of sentences, nouns and stuff that we just don't do anymore. I personally think it's sort of like a dumb construct that we capitalize the letter at the beginning of a sentence and of certain names and whatever. But, you know, I don't โ€“ that's fine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

But I think capitalization has gone down over time. Like if you read like old English writing, they capitalized a lot of random words in the middle of sentences, nouns and stuff that we just don't do anymore. I personally think it's sort of like a dumb construct that we capitalize the letter at the beginning of a sentence and of certain names and whatever. But, you know, I don't โ€“ that's fine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

And then โ€“ And I used to, I think, even capitalize my tweets because I was trying to sound professional or something. I haven't capitalized my private DMs or whatever in a long time. And then slowly, stuff like shorter form, less formal stuff has slowly drifted closer and closer to how I would text my friends.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

And then โ€“ And I used to, I think, even capitalize my tweets because I was trying to sound professional or something. I haven't capitalized my private DMs or whatever in a long time. And then slowly, stuff like shorter form, less formal stuff has slowly drifted closer and closer to how I would text my friends.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

And then โ€“ And I used to, I think, even capitalize my tweets because I was trying to sound professional or something. I haven't capitalized my private DMs or whatever in a long time. And then slowly, stuff like shorter form, less formal stuff has slowly drifted closer and closer to how I would text my friends.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

If I like write, if I like pull up a Word document and I'm like writing a strategy memo for the company or something, I always capitalize that. If I'm writing like a long kind of more like formal message, I always use capitalization there too. So I still remember how to do it. But even that may fade out. I don't know. Like it's, but I never spend time thinking about this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

If I like write, if I like pull up a Word document and I'm like writing a strategy memo for the company or something, I always capitalize that. If I'm writing like a long kind of more like formal message, I always use capitalization there too. So I still remember how to do it. But even that may fade out. I don't know. Like it's, but I never spend time thinking about this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

If I like write, if I like pull up a Word document and I'm like writing a strategy memo for the company or something, I always capitalize that. If I'm writing like a long kind of more like formal message, I always use capitalization there too. So I still remember how to do it. But even that may fade out. I don't know. Like it's, but I never spend time thinking about this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

So I don't have like a ready-made strategy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

So I don't have like a ready-made strategy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

So I don't have like a ready-made strategy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I wonder if people like still capitalize their Google searches. Like if you're writing something just to yourself or their chat GPT queries, if you're writing something just to yourself, do some people still bother to capitalize?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I wonder if people like still capitalize their Google searches. Like if you're writing something just to yourself or their chat GPT queries, if you're writing something just to yourself, do some people still bother to capitalize?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I wonder if people like still capitalize their Google searches. Like if you're writing something just to yourself or their chat GPT queries, if you're writing something just to yourself, do some people still bother to capitalize?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Yeah, there's a percentage, but it's a small one. The thing that would make me do it is if people were like, it's a sign of, like, because I'm sure I could, like, force myself to use capital letters, obviously. If it felt like a sign of respect to people or something, then I could go do it. But I don't know, I just, like, I don't think about this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Yeah, there's a percentage, but it's a small one. The thing that would make me do it is if people were like, it's a sign of, like, because I'm sure I could, like, force myself to use capital letters, obviously. If it felt like a sign of respect to people or something, then I could go do it. But I don't know, I just, like, I don't think about this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Yeah, there's a percentage, but it's a small one. The thing that would make me do it is if people were like, it's a sign of, like, because I'm sure I could, like, force myself to use capital letters, obviously. If it felt like a sign of respect to people or something, then I could go do it. But I don't know, I just, like, I don't think about this.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I don't even think that's true, but maybe, maybe.