Who can forget "the orb", altman seems like a complete clown who lucked into the holy grail that is openai:
https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/03/21/sam-altman-orb-scan-ey...
Can't tell if this is meaningless, the reporter just failed to convey its actual meaning, or I am too dumb to understand
It's definitely both of the first two.
If you don't know what Worldcoin is, look it up. It doesn't really need any commentary.
The fact that this dude was basically handed YCombinator and then handed OpenAI shows how incestuous the inside-most track of Silicon Valley is. I guess it's pretty much identical to Hollywood.
It's like that for every billionaire, humanity will make some X progress in some Y field and some lucky schnook will find themselves in the epicenter of it all.
Just like on the other hand an Earthquake will stuck in coordinates X,Y and some poor unlucky schnook Z will find themselves in the epicenter of it all
Generally I wouldn't gatekeep, but here, it seems apt.
The American education system is no measure of a person's worth. I've already built and sold one startup somehow despite your sneering, and I dropped out after a semester and a half. I'm now working on my second. Try to avoid the urge to casually dismiss entire categories of people because you want to elevate yourself above one of them. Books are available without spending $40k per year.