Meet OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who learned to code at 8 and is a doomsday prepper with a stash of gold,

Meet OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who learned to code at 8 and is a doomsday prepper with a stash of gold, guns, and gas masks

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/meet-openai-ceo-sam-altman-193756410.html

"he AI industry.Courtesy of Sam Altman

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  Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the buzzy AI firm he cofounded with Elon Musk.
  
  
• Before that, he was well known in Silicon Valley as president of startup accelerator Y-Combinator.
  
  
• Here's how the serial entrepreneur got his start — and ended up helming one of today's most-watched companies.
  

Sam Altman, 37, grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He learned how to program and take apart a Macintosh computer when he was 8 years old.
Altman studied computer science at Stanford University for two years before he and two of his classmates dropped out to work full time on their mobile app, Loopt, that shared a user's location with their friends."

 

Even better - food. And maybe, water. EVERYBODY needs those. Although I hope never to do or see this kind of trading...

 

I'm reminded of reading a US soldier's experience in post-WWII Japan. There was a gold-dealer and the soldier was curious. He asked what he could get for his bulky, gold High School ring. The dealer replied "Five dollars."

"Why so little?"
"Everybody want to sell - nobody want to buy."

There's a lesson, there.

 

Gold and silver were used for coins for thousands of years. It stores well and it's much easier to trade than piles of rice or bottles of beer.

 

In their financial system, Muslims believe that gold and silver are the best forms of money, because they were created by Allah. If you view money as a medium of exchange - gold and silver are very, very good - I sincerely believe that, too, for non-religious reasons. Unlike Islamic banking, the banks of the West do not generally view money as a medium of exchange - but as a commodity. I prefer the Islamic approach.

Unfortunately there hasn't been a gold circulating coin issued in Canada since around 1914. It's been a long time since I had one in my change. And silver circulating coinage disappeared in the 1960s.

We're talking a disaster scenario here - and I think there are things - simple things like food - way more in demand than gold or silver, in such times. "Would you take some candles for those eggs?"

If it was simply a hyperinflation scenario - yes, gold and silver would rule. But when everything is broken....

 

Talking about apocalyptic or post apocalyptic scenarios
CEO of Stability AI, an OpenAI rival, reportedly told employees they were 'all going to die in 2023' as competition heats up.

"Ezekiel 7:19
19They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity."

 

"Abū Bakr ibn Abi Maryam reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah say: "A time is certainly coming over mankind in which there will be nothing (left) that will be of use (or benefit) save a Dinār (i.e., a gold coin) and a Dirham (i.e., a silver coin).” [This prophecy clearly anticipates the eventual collapse of the fraudulent monetary system now functioning around the world.] (Musnad, Ahmad)"

"For every quotation there is an equal and opposite contradiction." - sez Johann

You pays yer money and you takes yer choice.

 

I hear you
"Ezekiel 7:19
Already fulfilled as the prophet was announcing destruction of the land of Israel and the city Jerusalem, Judah, that happened.
The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
Money didn't help to save the rich when destruction came, when the judgement time came on Jerusalem.

But it doesn't meant not to diversify in our portfolios, savings. gold, silver, real estate may help to survive and helped people over the ages.

 

There's an awesome Twilight Zone episode about this, where some contemporary gold thieves go under suspended animation to avoid capture. I know the episode is 60 years-old, but I won't spoil it.

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

 

Until someone figures out how to manufacture gold and silver cheaply. Personally, I have had a philosopher's stone on back-order at Amazon for a long time....

 

Yes. I agree. It's too often said that "money is the root of all evil." It's not. It's the excessive "love" of, and endless desire for it - and the bad and damaging things that get done in the name, and pursuit, of that "love."

 

"I don’t care about losing all the money. It’s losing all the stuff.” -- Marie from The Jerk

They say that's money
Can't buy love in this world
But it'll get you a half-pound of cocaine
And a sixteen-year-old girl
And a great big long limousine
On a hot September night
Now that may not be love but it is all right -- Randy Newman, "It's Money That I Love"

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping." -- Attributed to Gertrude Stein

 

That's painted in large letters at our local mall. I'm serious. Gertrude Stein, huh? I thought maybe it was Sophie Kinsella - author of "Confessions of a Shop-a-holic." I think Sophie is one cool lady!

 

This is why I say "Attributed to...." So many sayings are attributed to people who did not--or likely did not--actually say them.

 

It's also widely attributed to others, too. By at least half a dozen sites each to two actresses - Bo Derek (10, Bolero, Ghosts Can't Do It...) and "Gossip Girl" Blair Waldorf. My money's on Gertrude as the originator, but no matter who -- I like it. And Bo and Blair - I'm still your fan, regardless.