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Sam Altman

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

2 books on the record · 28 Mar 2013 – 25 Feb 2015 · @sama

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

(Incidentally, Nick Bostrom's excellent book "Superintelligence" is the best thing I've seen on this topic. It is well worth a read.)

on blog.samaltman.com · 25 Feb 2015

read it

The Endurance by Caroline Alexander

I'm reading The Endurance and "by endurance we conquer" (Ernest Shackleton's family motto) struck me as a great piece of startup wisdom.

on blog.samaltman.com · 28 Mar 2013

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.