The Sam Altman Expose is Utterly Terrifying
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What does Ronan Farrow’s article reveal about Sam Altman’s pattern of lying?
All right. Okay, so we shot an hour of this episode, and then the SD card failed, so we had to start over. And here we are, but today we're talking about the Ronan Farrow article, an essay, really, on Sam Altman. And I began the last episode by saying that there were some reservations I had with it. Nothing serious. Basically, I felt like Farrow... did not do enough to go into the accusations by Sam Altman's sister before dismissing them, and then also I would have liked to have seen a little bit more about the dangers of AI that aren't directly related to Sam Altman, but I understand that this is an article about Sam Altman, and so that's kind of where everything is centered. I just would have liked to see this be a series, or maybe I hope he's working on a book where he goes into things in more detail.
Yeah, this is definitely much more about his professional ethics specifically.
Yeah, so this is Ronan's Pharaoh article, Sam Altman May Control Our Future, Can He Be Trusted? It's in the New Yorker. It's about 16,000 words, 42 pages, so it's long. This is a long New Yorker article. That is a magazine.
For if you haven't read the New Yorker or not one of the physical copies, it is very much a magazine. It is not hefty by any stretch. This is a tremendous amount of page to go to this issue, which I think it deserves.
And Ronan Farrow, who is... Certainly not the son of who he is supposedly the son of. Anyway. Anyway, getting into the details of this. You can't look at him and then
look at Sinatra and go, that's
not, that's nothing there. Let's be so for real right now. That...
there's italian in that man
yeah um anyway i for all you know my reservations i don't like the new yorker i've never liked the new yorker i think it's pretentious uh and the exact thing family guy makes fun of it for being but i to his credit and to the new yorker's credit this is a fantastic article it is entirely worth reading we're thinking we might end up doing a narration of it as well that will be um demonetized not demonetized but it just won't be monetized so that we can read it for people without uh you know anybody getting mad at us and that way if you just want to listen to it in the car or something like that, or while you're working, you're on your way to school, whatever, you'll be able to do so. But to get into it, I began, during the period where Aiden had to run home to pay some people to fix his chimney, I began going through the article and taking notes on certain things, like Sam Altman's supposed pattern of lying, stuff that happened at Y Combinator and Looped, which was kind of where he got his start, various recognitions of danger by the people in charge of this software,
and also Elon Musk's role and why he left, because that was something we talked about pretty extensively in the original attempt at recording this. But what I want to make very clear right now is that I was not able to get through the whole thing. I got to page 14 before it was time to start again. As for the pattern of Sam lying, and you'll see as we go through some of the paragraphs in this article, there will be several people who say something about Sam, and then in parentheses, Sam saying something like, I don't recall that. Or there's one... specific occasion that I just find hilarious where somebody went, this provision shouldn't be in this contract. And Sam goes, it's not. And he's like, it's right here.
And Sam goes, it's not, as he's showing him the contract. And he has to drag in another employee to be like, yeah, that's there. Clearly the man is a pathological liar who... does not care how obvious it is that he's lying or how provable it is that he's lying. So you can't take anything he says seriously. But what I wanted to make the point about is, again, I got to page 14 before I had to stop doing this. Of 42. Of 42. And also, page 5 is a third of a page because there's a cartoon. Page... 3 is the first page, so realistically, out of 12 pages, Sam either tells a lie or is accused of having a pattern of lying on pages 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 9, 11, and 12.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Ronan Farrow’s article reveal about Sam Altman’s pattern of lying?
0:00–18:29
2
How has OpenAI shown a disregard for AI safety according to the discussion?
18:29–35:21
3
Why is Sam Altman considered unusually persuasive and sociopathic?
35:21–49:47
4
What are the main AI limitations and dangers highlighted in the episode?
49:47–1:06:02
5
What happened during Sam Altman’s 2023 ousting from OpenAI?
1:06:02–1:19:20
6
How do tech, politics, and media intersect in the Sam Altman controversy?
1:19:20–1:34:39
7
What are the implications of AI geopolitics and the proposed “merge‑and‑assist” clause?
1:34:39–1:48:29
8
What final actions and warnings do the hosts suggest for listeners regarding AI?
1:48:29–2:07:51
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