Relentless
01:07:39 · Sam Altman, Ty Morse
[01:07:39] S1: And what'd you figure out? [01:07:40] S0: Well, it was, I think, your mental model of basically if there's a small group of people, like, what is a real trend versus a fake trend? A fake trend is, you know, the VR situation where someone... There's a lot of hype, but then someone buys the thing. They don't really love it. They don't really start to, like, design their life around the experience of using it, and then it sits on itself. Whereas, like, for me with ChatGPT, it's pretty much every day And maybe for... Like, sometimes I need to work a lot, so I spend, like, three hours or some days. It's, like, almost nothing, but it's, like, persistent in my life. How do you kind of, like, figure out now whether or not something is a real trend or a fake trend inside of the company and [01:08:21] S1: just generally? Same principle. Like, is there real deep enduring [01:08:24] S0: How did you come [01:08:25] S1: to that [01:08:25] S0: philosophy or mental framework? [01:08:28] S1: Well, I, like, kinda watched a lot of startups. The the... Are many amazing things about working at YC, but just the amount of data you get. And as long as you're willing to, like, spend the time trying to analyze it and make sense of it, you can really figure out a lot of things. [01:08:40] S0: Are there any big mental frameworks that you used to have that you think are wrong in today's environment and will be content... Continue to get more wrong over time as, like, intelligence explodes?
01:08:40 · Ty Morse, Sam Altman
[01:08:40] S0: Are there any big mental frameworks that you used to have that you think are wrong in today's environment and will be content... Continue to get more wrong over time as, like, intelligence explodes? [01:08:53] S1: I mean, I kind of think a huge amount of them are... They weren't necessarily wrong at the time, although I'm sure I was wrong about a bunch of things too. But a huge amount of them are wrong now. I think a startup of today still looks mostly like a startup of ten years ago because that's what the received wisdom says you're supposed to do. And sure, it's different in some ways. People are like, well, I'm going to hire less people and spend more money on tokens for codex or whatever. But it should probably look very different. And I have met a few people who are trying to do a startup in a completely different way. But most people just use means, like, use more codecs, and, that doesn't seem like enough.