GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions."

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"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions."

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GorillasAreForEating@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

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Successful people

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"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions." I heard this from Qi Lu; I'm not sure what the source is. It got me...

From Sam Altman’s blog, pre-OpenAI

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IIRC, it wasn’t Hubbard who said this, but Ayn Rand, who, at a cocktail party, bet him that he couldn’t start a religion and make money from it.

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