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Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

Just this morning I was listening to a podcaster I normally like. The topic was energy. Then he says, "Sam Altman is very optimistic about fusion." I hit the ceiling. "That guy is wrong about everything IN HIS OSTENSIBLE AREA OF EXPERTISE".

It's really uncanny They can't even be bothered to include useful context even if it happened one week earlier

The flipside to it is that these CEOs are constantly in the media. Interviews. Podcasts. As a retired tech guy, it makes me believe they don't have a clue about what's going on back at the job. How could they? They're never there. Probably getting fed a line of crap by their lap dog directors.

OpenAI must have a staff member monitoring all of Altman's interviews with JIRA open on his laptop. "Guess we're doing this now too."

I’m old enough to remember when our “business stenographers” created an heroic captain of industry narrative around Jack Welch, all available evidence to the contrary.