evacide18h ago
The tl;dr here is that something that most people in Silicon Valley already know: Sam Altman lies a lot. Just constantly. About big and little things. And every effort to hold him accountable has failed. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.

The New Yorker
Show threadTyrone Slothrop18h ago
@evacide in that case, I wish they would have just titled the piece “Sam Altman is a Lying Liar who Lies All The Time”
Show threadJason Lefkowitz
@slothrop @evacide They assigned the piece to Ronan Farrow, which is kind of a sub rosa way of making the same point
Apr 6 at 5:23pmWeb
Show threadTyrone Slothrop17h ago
@jalefkowit @evacide Farrow’s bio piece on the New Yorker site certainly looks impressive
Show threadJason Lefkowitz17h ago

@slothrop @evacide Among other things, he was part of the team that took down Harvey Weinstein. And Weinstein did not spare any expense to try and stop them, either.

I'm a sworn enemy of nepo babies in general, but Farrow has earned his stripes

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/us/harvey-weinstein-new-yorker.html

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