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90% of Sam Altman's interviews include at least one moment where he pretends to be on the opposite side of a major issue he directly caused via his own greed and misrepresentation

It's a cultural expectation in the valley. It's seen as 'smart'. He, and others, do this for plausible deniability or to try and discourage others from trying to profit from the exact same externality they are trying to exploit. See also: lifting the ladders into the lifeboats.

look, he’s just a smol bean special boy who only wants to improve the world and all of these terrible things keep happening around him 🥺

2027 is going to be a wild ride for this guy

The balls on these fucking people.

This is so rich coming from the guy who single handedly created a manufacturing imbalance by writing trillion dollar IOUs to Korean manufacturers for several years

Is this his attempt at covering his behind when his awful money pit scheme and its many competitor copies end up causing a global financial crash? Cause I don't think accusations of "silliness" is gonna cut it.

He has done this from the start. He routinely makes bad choices and then pretends he is somehow on the side of sense, caution, and reason. Some variant pops up in every interview.

I sometimes wonder how *anyone* could be bamboozled by this rizzless gelatinoid; this utter sinkhole of a personality; this lightless void where baseline human charisma should be. Then I remember Wall Street is mainly populated with some of the dumbest and greediest people ever to plague the Earth.

I think we might be seeing a repeat of what happen in 1990s and early 2000s, when telecommunications companies spent billions laying excessive amounts of optical fiber that vastly exceeded immediate demand. The oversupply led to bankruptcies, accounting scandals, and many telecoms crashing.

I think so too. And then eventually much of that capacity being used much later on, but in far less performative ways

Not my area of expertise, but there are also those who say that optical fiber has a slightly longer useful life than GPUs running at full tilt.