Sam Altman

I'm not sure that is something we should prevent.

For me, writing is outsourced thinking and very important.

But as long as people replace a better way to do their thinking with a new kind of writing, that seems directionally fine.

One of the sad things about getting more well-known is if I don't phrase everything perfectly for very little benefit to me or to OpenAI, I just like open up a ton of attacks or whatever.

And that is a bummer.

Mostly wrong.

Mostly wrong with some gems in there.

Well, that's a different thing.

There's also something about just being a thoughtful, somewhat careful person, which, yes, I think more people should do.

The thing I think is really silly, a reasonably common workflow is that someone will write the bullet points of what they want to say to somebody else, have ChatGBT write it into a nice multi-paragraph email, send it over to somebody else.

That person will then put that email in ChatGBT and say, tell me what the three key bullet points are.

And so I think there is some vestigial formality of writing and communication or whatever that probably doesn't still have a lot of value.

And I'm fine to get to a world where the social norms evolve that everybody can just send each other the bullet points.

No one knows.

But I think the more interesting answer is what is a human useful for today?

And I would say being useful to other people.

And I think that'll keep being the case.

I think that someone said to me, this was Paul Buchheit many, many years ago that really stuck with me as he had been thinking and thinking and thinking.

This is like before OpenAI started.

He thought that someday there was just going to be human money and machine money, and they were going to be completely separate currencies, and one wouldn't care about the other.