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Hi Eric, what is an emergency podcast?

And without knowing anything about the guests - what is say, Sam Altman, doing right now that is qualifies him in your view? In other words, why should someone listen to him?

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I only meant we rushed it out as fast as we could in light of the emergency. It's not very produced or "professional" sounding or anything like that.

Sam has invested in a metric ton of COVID relief efforts and startups. I think we'd all be better off if more people followed his example in this respect.

Is there a list of these investments, say, in case someone wanted to perform a rough conversion of "metric ton" into USD, which is easier for some of us to conceptualize.

I don’t believe it’s been made public. I only know about it because I see his name popping up on many unrelated efforts

I don’t say any of this to praise Sam (he doesn’t need it) but rather to explain why I thought his interview was interesting.

What is an emergency podcast?

A podcast made to monetize an emergency, clearly.

Your cynicism is probably well-earned but in this case misplaced. OOTC doesn't make any money.

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