samaltmanfried

For what it's worth, they're also prohibited by Airbnb's terms of service: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3061

I think that in Anglo-American culture it's also usually a faux-pas to confront a 'phony' in casual conversation. I've met lots of phonies in my time, and I feel as though calling them out on their BS stories, even in a subtle way, would have been a bigger faux-pas than telling it in the first place. It makes sense, I guess. Forcing the person to lose face and admit their lie would sour any social occasion.

I got put on a PIP once. It happened because a project I was leading suffered from a huge scope blowout in the 11th hour, and I missed the deadline. To be honest, it actually really hurt my self-esteem. I had a pretty hard time dealing with it at the time. I now look back and realize that the project couldn't possibly have succeeded even if they had two of me working overtime. I ended up moving on from that position a few weeks after.

Isn't it better to leave on the best terms possible? In my career I've sometimes needed to get references from my last few positions to get offered my next one. Wearing out everyone's good will while you run out the clock doesn't sound like a good strategy.

Do you think high school students are qualified to decide for themselves whether they'll need math later in life? I never imagined having the kind of career I ended up with. I always thought I'd work as a writer. I ended up as a software engineer.

> I also personally don't want to live in a world where a significant portion of people don't know basic history...

I think you've already been living in that world for a while now. I'm having trouble finding it right now, but has anyone seen those lists of what books students were reading in the late 19th, early 20th century? Not that long ago students were reading classics like Dickens or Tolkien. These days that's well beyond the literacy of the average US middle/high school student.

You're far more likely to become infected with T.gondii from eating rare meat than you are from having a pet cat. Infection is more highly correlated with diet than cat ownership, with populations from countries which eat more rare meats having much higher rates.

I'm in my early 40s. When I first learned programming it felt like I was breaking into some kind of cool subculture, with its own counterculture folklore and customs. 'Programming culture' seems to have shifted from 'Hack The Planet' to MacBooks and the Ivy League. I work with a lot of people half my age, and I have a lot of trouble relating to them. It seems like there's fewer SWEs who love tinkering with technology for its own sake, and more people who would be just as happy paving roads if it paid as much.

I can only think of one other tech CEO that managed to become as universally loathed as Altman in so quick a time, and that's Mark Zuckerberg. However even Zuckerberg somehow manages to seem more trustworthy than Altman.