“On Lex Fridman’s Second Podcast with Altman” by Zvi

Last week Sam Altman spent two hours with Lex Fridman (transcript). Given how important it is to understand where Altman's head is at and learn what he knows, this seemed like another clear case where extensive notes were in order.

Lex Fridman overperformed, asking harder questions than I expected and going deeper than I expected, and succeeded in getting Altman to give a lot of what I believe were genuine answers. The task is ‘get the best interviews you can while still getting interviews’ and this could be close to the production possibilities frontier given Lex's skill set.

There was not one big thing that stands out given what we already have heard from Altman before. It was more the sum of little things, the opportunity to get a sense of Altman and where his head is at, or at least where he is presenting it as [...]

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First published:
March 25th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AaS6YRAGBFrxt6ZMj/on-lex-fridman-s-second-podcast-with-altman

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.