You believe he cares about external validation and things like awards.

You believe he cares about being a billionaire.

You are more or less projecting your beliefs and ideas on what a successful life is on him.

Alan pursued truth throughout his life. Not external validations. He was a scientist not a politician or celebrity or a wannabe make world better startup founder.

Only truth could have set him free. And I hope he found his truth.

Interesting. So you make decisions based on what the press tells you? Do you believe the news the press choose to report and not to is based on what they think is good for you? Do you believe the press actually can know what is good for you?

2. You assume majority of the public actually has an opinion or time to think about whether Sam should run OpenAI. They don't.

3. You assume public opinion is an accurate metric of justice. It's not. We have judicial system for that.

4. You assume Sam makes decisions through his ego and not any other system. You don't know that. Your ego thinks it's true. But honestly you have zero information unless you are really close to Sam in that case you have no reason to make this comment.

Also why not say we surveyed 6000 people in our list instead and 30% of them have this view? That is more true than saying 30% of Americans have this view which is quite a big jump. There is ofcourse some lying going on here. What are they trying to achieve by lying here is my question.

And then made it look like 30% of Americans have this view so that your brain takes the view seriously.

Investigating why they lie to themselves and others to spread this idea is the actual truth here.

For that, they can't use FTX. They need USD or a stable coin like USDC.

They can't convert hundreds of millions of dollars of FTT to USDC since demand for FTT is relatively small. And a transaction like that might cause a huge decline in the price of FTT.

So they must have used ETH, BTC etc deposited by customers for swapping to USD or USDC.

I guess their theory must have been the surbowl ads, celebrity endorsemens and all would result in demand of FTT going up after some time. And they can later swap them back to customer funds when required.

But then crypto crashed.

Now customers want to withdraw the funds and they don't have it to give back. And nobody wants FTT.

Trust me we have the funds backed 1 to 1 in our exchange is not unless proven cryptographically.

Be it Sequoia. Or Yc. PG, Chamath, Mark Cuban ,Balaji or the Collision brothers. Tom Brady or SBF or CZ. Never fucking trust people or organisations.

They are all here for their financial upsides.

Only trust the tech. The maths. If you can't do the work you would be fucked by them.

That's all.

I am not saying PG did something shady. I am saying even a well regarded figure like him in this community should not be taken for granted unless they back their claims by sold evidence.