Tyler Cowen

We don't know, but I think you can become much better at figuring out the other 75%, partly just with practice.

Well, Patrick was being too modest.

I thought his answer there was quite wrong, but he sort of knows better.

He was able to hire Greg Brockman because he's Patrick.

It's very simple.

He wasn't going to come out and just say that, and he may even deny it a bit to himself.

But if you're Patrick and John, you're going to attract some Greg Brockmans.

And if you're not, it's just way, way harder, because the Greg Brockmans are pretty good at spotting who are the Patricks and Johns.

So in a way, that's just pushing it back a step, but at least it's answering part of the question in a way that Patrick didn't, because he was modest and humble.

Well, they make each other much better, just like Patrick and John made each other much better and still do.

But you're getting back to my favorite human bottlenecks.

Thank you.

I'm fully on board with what you're saying.

To get those, like, how many Beatles are there?

It's amazing how much stuff doesn't really last.

And it's just super scarce achievement at the very highest levels.

And that's this extreme human bottleneck.

And AI, even a pretty strong AI, remains to be seen how much it helps us with that.

I don't know, to date, a lot of them have been quite good, and many of them are people who are here.

There's a danger that as the thing becomes more popular,