Almanac of American politics he knows more about American political geography than everybody in this room put together
Sam Alman does a lot of interviews.
Sports Almanac.
And also Sam Alman who's gone to the dark side.
he thought that Alman was on the same page with him and then over time began
and that's when Alman tweeted this.
We had almanacs printed entirely in Cherokee.
you see some statements from people Sam Alman saying, "Stop complaining about energy costs.
and are you saying that Sam Alman manipulated Musk because Elon did end up donating a huge amount of money to um
you quote retweeted that tweet from Sam Alman and you said the unnamed book
Do you believe that tweet from Sam Alman was in reference to your book?
And in "Poor Charlie's Almanac," he talked about how the human mind is a lot like the human egg.
When Alman is writing for the public or speaking for the public,
open AAI and co-founding it I believe with Sam Alman .
Altman, saying that somehow Alman tricked him into being part of this.
in in 2015, Sam Alman is writing these blog posts saying this is, you know, one of the greatest existential threats.
about those interviews is people are extremely polarized on Alman there.
So he was instrumental in trying to get Sam Alman fired and he's another one of
He felt that Alman was creating a very chaotic environment within the company where he was pitting teams
It's because up until then Alman had been talking just about engineered viruses.
the people who over time began to feel like he was being manipulated by Alman towards contributing something that he
on this, the board fired Sam Alman .
That was great. I have your almanac, which I love.
literature I came across was sort of a kind of an ocean Almanac that listed out sort of random statistics about the
What you're supposed to do is be Sam Alman .
go back and look look at their quotes through time, people like Sam Alman predicted that there will need to be some kind of UBI scheme.
has has quite radically changed and so I didn't believe this stuff like a lot of people told me about oh Sam Alman these
from Musk's perspective, he does feel manipulated because he feels like Alman
technology because that's the only way that it's going to go really really well and Alman has said publicly you know the
book, I actually quote an email that I received that Sam Alman sent to the company about my profile saying, "Yeah,
But so like do you either kill Hitler, or do you use this great sports almanac and win a lot of money?
Sam Alman
Karen, how you've written this book in front of me here called Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Alman 's
When Sam Alman is talking with Congress, AGI is a
And in that particular moment, Alman was
And so in that blog post, if you look at the the language that Alman uses
Should it be Musk or should it be Alman ?
cameras now it was made for me it's like he knows me it's it's like an absurdist uh long goodbye which Alman is one of my
That's what he called the land ethic, and he wrote about it in the "Sand County Almanac." What he did not write about was developing a land ethic
I know you read a lot, so I'm only going to ask for the top three-- and they have to be other than "Poor Charlie's Almanac"
Right? He's not Biff Tannen from "Back to the Future II." He doesn't have an almanac that tells him what trades to make.
Oh, man. Can I bring a like a Gray's Sports Almanac with me?
I don't know if they are, but this is going to be a Sour Blonde from the Almanac Brewery Company up in the San Francisco area.
And then, like I said, all kinds of great information for you. Here's a Philadelphia record almanac with food and drinks for sick people. Beef tea for the sick. You guys will
to have to look it up, you know, with an almanac or something and now I just get on Google and like, two hours later I'm looking at something completely unrelated. And I uhh--
So, like for example, I tell you how how the old farmers, like in the Old Farmer's Almanac for example, used to
out more and more on the stuff as it goes on because there's just too much to remember I don't have like an almanac