Lying about FSD for almost a decade now through your teeth isn't "hype" - it's just bullshit.

> Hype is the fuel that bootstraps fortunes in techtopia.

Hype is the fuel that builds fortunes at the expense of the greater fool. See WeWork.

Arguably none of the magnificent seven was built on hype, other than Tesla (and even there, not sure it was).

Yes, but we have a long track record of one overpromising and underdelivering, charging money for what doesn't yet exist; while the other released stuff on a minimal website with an associated blog post for fanfare, and actually (metaphorically) turned the world upsidedown, and only charges for what they actually deliver. Yes there's hype now, but that's how it began.

So I think people are less distrustful of Altman when he says "thousands of days".

Yes, but then they also redefined what that means half way through.