“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sounded exasperated when Altimeter Capital founder—and OpenAI shareholder—Brad Gerstner asked him the question that Gerstner said was ‘hanging over the market’: how a company generating $13 billion in revenue this year would pay for the $1.4 trillion in computing capacity that Altman has said the company is on the hook for.

‘Brad, if you want to sell shares, I’ll find you a buyer…I just—enough,’ Altman said on Gerstner’s podcast.”

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ilya-saw-mira-murati...

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dgfitz 3 days ago | parent [-]

> I’ll find you a buyer…I just—enough,’ Altman said on Gerstner’s podcast.”

Hopefully nobody reading this has experienced it: these are the words of a true sociopath/addict.

"I'm mad you questioned me" is fucking classic.

I told dang I was out and I am after this. Sorry dang.

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tim333 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think it's a bit out of order of Altman. $1.4tn is ~16 times the US foreign aid budget. These are significant, solve world hunger type numbers that should be analysed seriously and not done on the basis of trust me bro.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> not done on the basis of trust me bro It's not. It's done on the basis of don't question me bro.

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Imustaskforhelp 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I told dang I was out and I am after this. Sorry dang.

Sorry but is there some lore behind it as I feel like the last sentence has me wondering what it means. If you could share the lore, I would really appreciate it.

but overall, I agree that this is a very weird thing to say by Sam Altman

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gpt800 3 days ago | parent [-]

dang is the hackernews moderator

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

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anon7000 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah, but why would it matter to us if they tell dang they’re out? That’s the missing context.

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes, and I was asking for this thing when I had created the comment. I know who dang is, but I want to know what's the missing context.
	▲	kennyadam 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Agreed. Very confusing.