Sam Altman

And the best possible way I could imagine spending my work time to get to be part of what I believe is the most interesting, coolest, important scientific revolution of our lifetimes.

So like, what a fucking privilege.

Unbelievable.

And then on the kind of like non-selfish reason,

I feel a sense of duty to scientific progress as a way that society progresses.

And of all of the things that I have a personal capacity to contribute to, or maybe just of all of the things, this is the one that I believe will drive progress.

scientific progress and thus standards of living the quality of the human experience whatever you want to call it forward the most and i feel a sense of duty but not in a negative sense like a duty with a lot of gratitude for holding it that i get to contribute in whatever way sounds like responsibility

sure with a with a child on the way as a soon-to-be father what kind of world are you hoping to see for the next generation abundance was the first word that came to mind prosperity was the second but you know generally just a world where people can do more like be more fulfilled live a better life however we define that for each of ourselves all the all those things probably the same thing every other soon-to-be dad has ever wanted for his kid i've certainly never been so excited for anything

And I think it's also like no one should have a kid that doesn't want to have a kid.

So I don't want to use the word duty here.

But society is dependent on some people having some kids.

At least for now.

At least for now.

I skew optimistic, even though I try to just be accurate.

But if there's being too optimistic about technology, like whatever, if you're too optimistic about humans, that could be a danger for us.

If we put these tools out and we like, yeah, people will use it for way more good than bad.

And we're just somehow really wrong about human nature.

That would be a flaw with our strategy.

But I don't believe that.

I get a surprising number of emails, like cold emails or something where someone will like say, I confess, I wrote this with the help of ChatGPT.