Successful People (2013)

(blog.samaltman.com)

13 points | by epestr an hour ago ago

9 comments

  • sublinear a minute ago

    ... and the mostest extremest top successfulest people didn't listen to Sam Altman back then and won't start now

  • lrvick 2 minutes ago

    He talks like a supervillian.

    A religion that has a single ultimate human authority at the helm is called a cult.

    I wonder if the writings of Sam Altman will be studied in a similar manner to Mein Kampf some day where people try to understand how someone was so unusually charismatic and driven that they were able to dazzle and charm an incredible number of people to participate in rapid and willful destruction of entire segments societies to achieve some contrived "greater good".

  • my002 an hour ago

    Surely this all depends on how you define 'successful'? If you define success as having the most influence over the largest number of people, then yes, I guess creating a religion would be the right thing to aim for.

    • epestr an hour ago

      I think you can understand a lot about someone, or a culture, based on what they consider 'success' to be.

    • whackernews an hour ago

      Yeh, seems to be success from the point of view of a psychopath.

  • iterance 27 minutes ago

    From this perspective, success is what you accomplish, and it has nothing to do with why you did it or the effects it has.

  • gnabgib an hour ago

    (2013) Funny title change over the years, too Successful People create Religions (19 points, 2013, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6062858

    • epestr 40 minutes ago

      Well it's interesting how the interpretation went from an analysis/commentary to playbook. Or maybe it was always a playbook.

  • dzonga 11 minutes ago

    the world is created by strong willed men(women).