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Jason Calacanis issues a brutal warning to every developer: “If I were any kind of developer, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI” “This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman’s OpenAI API” He says Altman is actively studying exactly how you use... the API because he wants every single dollar of revenue from the entire ecosystem. No prisoners Sam comes from the Zuckerberg school of business: give people tools, study what they build, and like the Borg, steal every innovation they create Exactly like Bill Gates did at Microsoft - let people build Lotus 1-2-3 then release Excel, let them build WordPerfect and WordStar then release Microsoft Wordshow more

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American entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis issues a warning to developers: Sam Altman’s OpenAI is stealing from you. “If I was a developer of any kind, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI. Let me say that this is a warning. People can clip this. This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman's OpenAI. You know, API. They are studying. You remember, Sam Altman's been around the block. I've known him since Loop. He's incredibly savvy person and he wants every bit of revenue from the ecosystem. He is taking no prisoners. He's going to study how you're using the API, which he has the right to do. Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg school of Business, which is give dumb people access to your tools, study them, and like the Borg, steal every innovation they have.” Source: @jason, This Week in Startups

American entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis issues a warning to developers: Sam Altman’s OpenAI is stealing from you. “If I was a developer of any kind, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI. Let me say that this is a warning. People can clip this. This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman's OpenAI. You know, API. They are studying. You remember, Sam Altman's been around the block. I've known him since Loop. He's incredibly savvy person and he wants every bit of revenue from the ecosystem. He is taking no prisoners. He's going to study how you're using the API, which he has the right to do. Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg school of Business, which is give dumb people access to your tools, study them, and like the Borg, steal every innovation they have.” Source: @jason, This Week in Startups

SMX 🇺🇸

509,505 views • 7 months ago

“Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg school of business: give dumb people access to your tools, study them and, like the Borg, steal every innovation they have.” - @jason they're not just studying the models. they're studying you.

“Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg school of business: give dumb people access to your tools, study them and, like the Borg, steal every innovation they have.” - @jason they're not just studying the models. they're studying you.

nordin.eth

176,520 views • 3 months ago

Elon warned Apple had no clue what happens to their data once they hand it over to OpenAI. And Jason had similarly warned developers loud and clear to never work with Scam Altman’s OpenAI API. The “partnership” is bait to hide the fact that they’re studying them. Altman gives them the tools, watches exactly how they innovate, then comes for it like the Borg, stealing every good idea while they do all the work. He wants every dollar from the ecosystem, and that’s what he learned from Zuckerberg, who learned it from Bill Gates.

Elon warned Apple had no clue what happens to their data once they hand it over to OpenAI. And Jason had similarly warned developers loud and clear to never work with Scam Altman’s OpenAI API. The “partnership” is bait to hide the fact that they’re studying them. Altman gives them the tools, watches exactly how they innovate, then comes for it like the Borg, stealing every good idea while they do all the work. He wants every dollar from the ecosystem, and that’s what he learned from Zuckerberg, who learned it from Bill Gates.

Rothmus 🏴

105,893 views • 1 month ago

Every major platform in history has run the same play. You’re about to watch it happen again. Jason Calacanis just went on record. He wants it clipped. He wants it shared. Calacanis: “If I was a developer of any kind, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI.” This isn’t pessimism. It’s pattern recognition. And the pattern has a 40 year track record. Open. Invite. Reward. Study. Absorb. Eliminate. Microsoft let developers build Lotus 1-2-3. Then built Excel. Let them build WordPerfect. Then built Word. Flew them to conferences. Handed out awards. Studied everything. Then eliminated them. Zuckerberg ran the exact same play at Facebook. Zynga built billions in value on their platform. Then Zuckerberg shifted them without blinking. Calacanis: “Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg school of business. Give people access to your tools, study them, and like the Borg, steal every innovation they have.” This is how platforms grow. They don’t innovate at the edges. They let the ecosystem do it for them. Startups take the risk. Startups find the market. Startups prove the concept. Then the platform ships it natively and calls it a feature. Altman isn’t selling you compute. He’s selling you a front row seat to your own disruption. Calacanis: “This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman’s OpenAI API. They are studying you.” OpenAI has the legal right to study how you use their API. You agreed to it. It’s in the terms. Every gap you find, you’re finding it for them first. Every dollar you make signals exactly where he should build next. We are at the exact same moment in AI that we were in the early internet. Developers flooded onto platforms. Built incredible things. Created real value. And handed the leverage to whoever owned the infrastructure beneath them. The AI gold rush feels different because the tools are more powerful. It isn’t different. You are not a founder. You are unpaid R&D. The builders who win the next decade won’t be the ones who used the best tools. They’ll be the ones who owned something the tools couldn’t absorb. Proprietary data. Distribution. A brand. A moat. History doesn’t warn you before it repeats. It just repeats. Thousands of developers are walking straight into this right now convinced they’re different. They’re not. Do not build your business on OpenAI. Build something he has to acquire or destroy.

Dustin

248,625 views • 6 months ago

. @jason drops a direct warning: “If I was a developer of any kind, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI. This is a warning. People can clip this.” OpenAI watches everything via API, learns your best ideas, and ships their own version. Platform risk is real.

. @jason drops a direct warning: “If I was a developer of any kind, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI. This is a warning. People can clip this.” OpenAI watches everything via API, learns your best ideas, and ships their own version. Platform risk is real.

Captain Eli

17,501 views • 3 months ago

Nikita Bier Grok Tuki David Sacks Jonatan Pallesen Peter St Onge, Ph.D. jack Ronan Farrow Katie Miller @jason thinks no developer should work with Sam Altman and his OpenAPI stack He thinks Sam Altman is from the same school of business as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Bill Gates of Microsoft… who steal your IP eventually

Nikita Bier Grok Tuki David Sacks Jonatan Pallesen Peter St Onge, Ph.D. jack Ronan Farrow Katie Miller @jason thinks no developer should work with Sam Altman and his OpenAPI stack He thinks Sam Altman is from the same school of business as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Bill Gates of Microsoft… who steal your IP eventually

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109,050 views • 4 months ago

J-Cal’s advice to founders: “If you partner with OpenAI or Anthropic, they will slit your throat and take your business wholesale. Don't trust them. Use your own models.” “There is no free pizza. There's no free beer. When somebody like Sam Altman comes to you and says, ‘Here's some free tokens,’ your alarm should go off. If you follow the Microsoft example, Lotus 1-2-3 and Word Perfect were their partners. They were replaced with Excel. They were replaced, obviously, with Microsoft Word. You don't even know those other two. That's exactly what OpenAI has to do, and they have no choice but to do that now because they have a trillion-dollar market cap. They must win the application layer. And Sam Altman went to Y Combinator and he said, ‘We'll give you $2 million worth of free tokens.’ And I came out and I said, ‘Listen, this is nothing personal against Sam. Sam's a very aggressive deal maker and he wants to get access to those startups because he knows, having run Y Combinator, that if he can get their innovations, those founders' latest thoughts about what's around the corner, he can incorporate them into the platform.’ Zuckerberg did the same thing. He said, ‘Hey, I'm going to give people a bunch of access, going to give them money. Come to the Facebook platform.’ Nobody who went to bed with Microsoft in the '80s, Facebook in the 2000s, or Sam Altman now in the 2020s did not wake up with their throat slit. This is a message to founders. If you partner with any of these people, they will slit your throat and take your business wholesale. There is nothing to discuss here. Don't trust them. Use your own models.”

J-Cal’s advice to founders: “If you partner with OpenAI or Anthropic, they will slit your throat and take your business wholesale. Don't trust them. Use your own models.” “There is no free pizza. There's no free beer. When somebody like Sam Altman comes to you and says, ‘Here's some free tokens,’ your alarm should go off. If you follow the Microsoft example, Lotus 1-2-3 and Word Perfect were their partners. They were replaced with Excel. They were replaced, obviously, with Microsoft Word. You don't even know those other two. That's exactly what OpenAI has to do, and they have no choice but to do that now because they have a trillion-dollar market cap. They must win the application layer. And Sam Altman went to Y Combinator and he said, ‘We'll give you $2 million worth of free tokens.’ And I came out and I said, ‘Listen, this is nothing personal against Sam. Sam's a very aggressive deal maker and he wants to get access to those startups because he knows, having run Y Combinator, that if he can get their innovations, those founders' latest thoughts about what's around the corner, he can incorporate them into the platform.’ Zuckerberg did the same thing. He said, ‘Hey, I'm going to give people a bunch of access, going to give them money. Come to the Facebook platform.’ Nobody who went to bed with Microsoft in the '80s, Facebook in the 2000s, or Sam Altman now in the 2020s did not wake up with their throat slit. This is a message to founders. If you partner with any of these people, they will slit your throat and take your business wholesale. There is nothing to discuss here. Don't trust them. Use your own models.”

The All-In Podcast

218,262 views • 1 month ago

🚨 Stop scrolling.. Let me explain what Sam Altman just pulled off. > Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion.. Biggest AI bet in history. OpenAI ran exclusively on Azure. > Then Sam got fired by his own board nd the whole world watched. > He talked his way back in. Fired the board instead and Restructured OpenAI from nonprofit to for-profit. > Then signed a $50 billion cloud deal with Amazon. Microsoft's biggest competitor.. using Microsoft's money to build the product Amazon's now selling. > Now Microsoft is lawyering up. This man got fired on a Friday, came back on a Monday, took $13 billion from Microsoft, flipped the entire company structure, and then handed the keys to Amazon. Sam Altman is running a masterclass in how to finesse a trillion dollar company with a straight face.

🚨 Stop scrolling.. Let me explain what Sam Altman just pulled off. > Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion.. Biggest AI bet in history. OpenAI ran exclusively on Azure. > Then Sam got fired by his own board nd the whole world watched. > He talked his way back in. Fired the board instead and Restructured OpenAI from nonprofit to for-profit. > Then signed a $50 billion cloud deal with Amazon. Microsoft's biggest competitor.. using Microsoft's money to build the product Amazon's now selling. > Now Microsoft is lawyering up. This man got fired on a Friday, came back on a Monday, took $13 billion from Microsoft, flipped the entire company structure, and then handed the keys to Amazon. Sam Altman is running a masterclass in how to finesse a trillion dollar company with a straight face.

Tuki

100,703 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk on Sam Altman: "I'm not a fan of Sam Altman because if you started a non-profit that was meant to be an open source AI company and it somehow got turned into an 800 billion dollar for-profit company with closed source, I think you'd be like, well, wait a second, that's the exact opposite of what I donated the money for. That's my issue. I think it's a legitimate one. And then Dario, I think, also is not a fan of Sam Altman because he felt, in fact, the reason the Anthropic team left OpenAI is because they didn't trust Sam Altman. Otherwise Anthropic wouldn't exist. They would still be at OpenAI. But at the end of the day, if we have to talk, we'll talk.I mean, set aside our personal differences for the good of the world."

Elon Musk on Sam Altman: "I'm not a fan of Sam Altman because if you started a non-profit that was meant to be an open source AI company and it somehow got turned into an 800 billion dollar for-profit company with closed source, I think you'd be like, well, wait a second, that's the exact opposite of what I donated the money for. That's my issue. I think it's a legitimate one. And then Dario, I think, also is not a fan of Sam Altman because he felt, in fact, the reason the Anthropic team left OpenAI is because they didn't trust Sam Altman. Otherwise Anthropic wouldn't exist. They would still be at OpenAI. But at the end of the day, if we have to talk, we'll talk.I mean, set aside our personal differences for the good of the world."

DogeDesigner

240,039 views • 1 month ago

"I don't even know the f***ing product lines. Where is all the revenue coming from?" Sam Altman: "Actually... I think we should be more of a platform company than a product company." *This 2 minute section is astounding because Sam Altman just admitted: 1) AI (LLMs) are a commodity; meaning they're easily substitutable, suffering from extreme boom and bust cycles. 2) OpenAI doesn't have any products, they're relying on users to build them. 3) They want to be a service provider, putting them in direct competition in a space already dominated by Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The scary part is Sam doesn't realize he just told the world that the emperor has no clothes.

"I don't even know the f***ing product lines. Where is all the revenue coming from?" Sam Altman: "Actually... I think we should be more of a platform company than a product company." *This 2 minute section is astounding because Sam Altman just admitted: 1) AI (LLMs) are a commodity; meaning they're easily substitutable, suffering from extreme boom and bust cycles. 2) OpenAI doesn't have any products, they're relying on users to build them. 3) They want to be a service provider, putting them in direct competition in a space already dominated by Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The scary part is Sam doesn't realize he just told the world that the emperor has no clothes.

Financelot

319,868 views • 18 hours ago

How To Build The Future: Sam Altman At OpenAI, Sam Altman and his team have overseen major leaps forward in machine learning, generative AI, and, most recently, LLMs that can reason at PhD levels. And this is just the beginning— in his latest essay Sam predicted that ASI is just a few thousand days away. In this episode of our rebooted series "How To Build The Future," Garry Tan sits down with Sam to talk about the origins of OpenAI, what’s next for the company, and what advice he has for founders navigating this massive platform shift.

How To Build The Future: Sam Altman At OpenAI, Sam Altman and his team have overseen major leaps forward in machine learning, generative AI, and, most recently, LLMs that can reason at PhD levels. And this is just the beginning— in his latest essay Sam predicted that ASI is just a few thousand days away. In this episode of our rebooted series "How To Build The Future," Garry Tan sits down with Sam to talk about the origins of OpenAI, what’s next for the company, and what advice he has for founders navigating this massive platform shift.

Y Combinator

148,629 views • 1 year ago

Satya Nadella just clarified the Microsoft open Ai deal and the terms what they signed for Azure. Here is exactly how he breaks down the partnership How it was Essentially think of OpenAI having a PaaS business and a SaaS business. The SaaS business is ChatGPT. Their PaaS business is their API. That API is Azure exclusive. The SaaS business, they can run it anywhere. If they want a partner and that partner wants to use a stateless API, then Azure is the place where they can get the stateless API. for even that they'll have to come to Azure. For any custom agreement like that. There are some few exceptions, the US government and so on, that we made, but other than that, they'd have to come to Azure. Open Ai can host there Chat Gpt consumer app wherever they want there wish but when it comes to developers or enterprise want to build on top of Open Ai models Microsoft owned the pipeline.

Satya Nadella just clarified the Microsoft open Ai deal and the terms what they signed for Azure. Here is exactly how he breaks down the partnership How it was Essentially think of OpenAI having a PaaS business and a SaaS business. The SaaS business is ChatGPT. Their PaaS business is their API. That API is Azure exclusive. The SaaS business, they can run it anywhere. If they want a partner and that partner wants to use a stateless API, then Azure is the place where they can get the stateless API. for even that they'll have to come to Azure. For any custom agreement like that. There are some few exceptions, the US government and so on, that we made, but other than that, they'd have to come to Azure. Open Ai can host there Chat Gpt consumer app wherever they want there wish but when it comes to developers or enterprise want to build on top of Open Ai models Microsoft owned the pipeline.

Vikram M

102,664 views • 21 days ago

OpenAI saga in 90 seconds: - Thursday night, Sam Altman gets a text from Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist & board member asking to chat on Friday. - Friday at Noon, Sam Altman is fired by the Open AI board because he was “not consistently candid in his communications.” - CTO Mira Murati is made Interim CEO. - Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, found out about the move 1 minute before the announcement. Their stock gets crushed. - Right after, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s President is asked to chat, where he’s told he’s removed from the board but retaining his role. - Greg resigns from OpenAI in solidarity with Sam Altman shortly after. - Tech news & twitter subsequently blow the f*ck up. - Sam Altman fires off a few tweets saying how grateful he was for openAI and the people and how he’d have more things to say soon. - OpenAI employees start tweeting hearts supposedly a signal to the board of who would leave OpenAI to follow Sam Altman if the decision was kept. - By Saturday, rumors start that the OpenAI board is in discussions to bring Sam Altman back as CEO. - Sam Altman tweets out a picture of him wearing a guest pass at OpenAI HQ. - Microsoft & Satya Nadella lead the charge to negotiate with the board. - Board negotiation ends with Altman officially being out on Sunday night & employees streaming out of the office. - Monday morning Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear is named interim CEO. - Around the same time, Satya Nadella announces that Sam is joining Microsoft as the CEO of a new AI research group & former OpenAI leaders like Greg Brockman are joining him. - Still Monday Morning, OpenAI employees share a letter with the board where 650 of 700 employees tell the board to resign.

OpenAI saga in 90 seconds: - Thursday night, Sam Altman gets a text from Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist & board member asking to chat on Friday. - Friday at Noon, Sam Altman is fired by the Open AI board because he was “not consistently candid in his communications.” - CTO Mira Murati is made Interim CEO. - Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, found out about the move 1 minute before the announcement. Their stock gets crushed. - Right after, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s President is asked to chat, where he’s told he’s removed from the board but retaining his role. - Greg resigns from OpenAI in solidarity with Sam Altman shortly after. - Tech news & twitter subsequently blow the f*ck up. - Sam Altman fires off a few tweets saying how grateful he was for openAI and the people and how he’d have more things to say soon. - OpenAI employees start tweeting hearts supposedly a signal to the board of who would leave OpenAI to follow Sam Altman if the decision was kept. - By Saturday, rumors start that the OpenAI board is in discussions to bring Sam Altman back as CEO. - Sam Altman tweets out a picture of him wearing a guest pass at OpenAI HQ. - Microsoft & Satya Nadella lead the charge to negotiate with the board. - Board negotiation ends with Altman officially being out on Sunday night & employees streaming out of the office. - Monday morning Twitch cofounder Emmett Shear is named interim CEO. - Around the same time, Satya Nadella announces that Sam is joining Microsoft as the CEO of a new AI research group & former OpenAI leaders like Greg Brockman are joining him. - Still Monday Morning, OpenAI employees share a letter with the board where 650 of 700 employees tell the board to resign.

Alex Lieberman

957,503 views • 2 years ago

🚨"NEVER TRUST SAM ALTMAN, EVER... HE'S NOT A PERSON, HE'S A BRAND" Mo Gawdat delivers blistering takedown of OpenAI CEO, claiming Altman represents Silicon Valley vapor over substance while comparing OpenAI's profit focus to Google's early mission-driven projects: "Never trust Sam Altman, ever. Sam Altman is not a person. Sam Altman is the creation of a system. California is a place where vapor is worth more than solids. You look at OpenAI's original promise, which was to protect the world from artificial intelligence, to make AI work for humanity, and then you look for actions that support that. And if you don't find any, then it's just a pitch. You could see at OpenAI how all of them, Ilya and Mira, most of the core team left and asked for the company to change its leadership." Mo Gawdat

Mario Nawfal

17,634 views • 8 months ago

The battle between Anthropic and OpenAI is heating up. Jordi Visser says "Sam Altman in my guess is not going to be the leader of OpenAI at some point soon." "I would be shocked within a year if he is still running OpenAI." "I am not sure it is fun to be in that position right now...Sam Altman seems to have nobody who really likes him, but the product people do like." "In the end, OpenAI has an uphill battle because they made a bad decision. They tried to choose the consumer, Apple side as opposed to the enterprise side." "I just think in the end Anthropic is the winner of that battle."

The battle between Anthropic and OpenAI is heating up. Jordi Visser says "Sam Altman in my guess is not going to be the leader of OpenAI at some point soon." "I would be shocked within a year if he is still running OpenAI." "I am not sure it is fun to be in that position right now...Sam Altman seems to have nobody who really likes him, but the product people do like." "In the end, OpenAI has an uphill battle because they made a bad decision. They tried to choose the consumer, Apple side as opposed to the enterprise side." "I just think in the end Anthropic is the winner of that battle."

Anthony Pompliano 🌪

106,184 views • 2 months ago

Sam Altman on the Paul Graham advice that saved Open AI: “Always make an API” Four years into OpenAI, Sam Altman and the team realized that they would have to build a really big company to fund the development of their increasingly capital-intensive foundation models. “We had this model called GPT-3,” Sam recalls. “I was turning up the urgency on the company to try and figure out a product, and we just couldn’t. It was cool, but it wasn’t good enough to make something that worked.” Then Sam remembered a piece of advice from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham that stuck with him: “You should always make an API. No matter what, you should make an API. Good stuff will happen.” Out of ideas for a product, the OpenAI team decided to make GPT-3 available as an API. “Maybe somebody will figure out something to do with it,” Sam thought. A few copywriting applications like Jasper and Copy AI did take off using the GPT-3 API, but OpenAI also noticed interesting behavior that eventually became a sleeper hit: “Some people — not a lot — would just chat with that thing all day,” Sam explains. “It wasn’t very good but there was clear user signal that people wanted to talk to the models. And given that that was the only thing besides copywriting that had real traction, we said, ‘Maybe this is just he product we should build.’” On November 30, 2022, ChatGPT was released to the public as a “research preview” using a model from the GPT-3.5 series. It reached over a million users in five days. Video source: Khosla Ventures (2025)

Sam Altman on the Paul Graham advice that saved Open AI: “Always make an API” Four years into OpenAI, Sam Altman and the team realized that they would have to build a really big company to fund the development of their increasingly capital-intensive foundation models. “We had this model called GPT-3,” Sam recalls. “I was turning up the urgency on the company to try and figure out a product, and we just couldn’t. It was cool, but it wasn’t good enough to make something that worked.” Then Sam remembered a piece of advice from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham that stuck with him: “You should always make an API. No matter what, you should make an API. Good stuff will happen.” Out of ideas for a product, the OpenAI team decided to make GPT-3 available as an API. “Maybe somebody will figure out something to do with it,” Sam thought. A few copywriting applications like Jasper and Copy AI did take off using the GPT-3 API, but OpenAI also noticed interesting behavior that eventually became a sleeper hit: “Some people — not a lot — would just chat with that thing all day,” Sam explains. “It wasn’t very good but there was clear user signal that people wanted to talk to the models. And given that that was the only thing besides copywriting that had real traction, we said, ‘Maybe this is just he product we should build.’” On November 30, 2022, ChatGPT was released to the public as a “research preview” using a model from the GPT-3.5 series. It reached over a million users in five days. Video source: Khosla Ventures (2025)

Startup Archive

219,324 views • 11 months ago

Sam Altman admits he wants to build a world where OpenAI transitions into an “infrastructure provider,” a “mega-scale token factory.” In this model, it decides what information people see, how decisions are made, and which businesses are allowed to succeed or fail. Altman says intelligence will become a utility like electricity or water, with people forced to buy it from them on a metered basis. "I think that could be quite powerful."

Sam Altman admits he wants to build a world where OpenAI transitions into an “infrastructure provider,” a “mega-scale token factory.” In this model, it decides what information people see, how decisions are made, and which businesses are allowed to succeed or fail. Altman says intelligence will become a utility like electricity or water, with people forced to buy it from them on a metered basis. "I think that could be quite powerful."

Shadow of Ezra

281,773 views • 3 months ago

Culture is genetic because behavior is genetic. This beaver never saw a dam in its life. No beavers or anything else ever taught it to build a dam. It wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Many beavers together build a big dam. That is beaver culture. Humans are not different. Nothing is different. This is what life is. This is how life works. Your body is your mind. A caterpillar wants to build a chrysalis. A bee wants to build a hive. A lion wants to build a pride. You are not special. You are not above your nature. you are INSIDE of it. The thoughts that we think are genetic thoughts. The crimes we commit are genetic crimes. The art we create is genetic art. Just like this beaver, you can give the animal different sticks and it will build a different dam, but it will always build a dam. And you can give humans different "education," but the human will always use it to do what its genes tell it to do. This is the first big answer that you need. This is the biggest piece of the puzzle. This is how to understand people 90% of the way. You just... notice what they do, and get out of the way, and watch them do it. And if they need sticks, you give them sticks. And if you don't like what they do, you have to get away from them. You cannot train dam-building into them or out of them any more than you can with a beaver. A beaver wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Whatever you see people build, that's what they wanted to build from the sticks they got in the river they were in. Stop pretending you can change it.

Culture is genetic because behavior is genetic. This beaver never saw a dam in its life. No beavers or anything else ever taught it to build a dam. It wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Many beavers together build a big dam. That is beaver culture. Humans are not different. Nothing is different. This is what life is. This is how life works. Your body is your mind. A caterpillar wants to build a chrysalis. A bee wants to build a hive. A lion wants to build a pride. You are not special. You are not above your nature. you are INSIDE of it. The thoughts that we think are genetic thoughts. The crimes we commit are genetic crimes. The art we create is genetic art. Just like this beaver, you can give the animal different sticks and it will build a different dam, but it will always build a dam. And you can give humans different "education," but the human will always use it to do what its genes tell it to do. This is the first big answer that you need. This is the biggest piece of the puzzle. This is how to understand people 90% of the way. You just... notice what they do, and get out of the way, and watch them do it. And if they need sticks, you give them sticks. And if you don't like what they do, you have to get away from them. You cannot train dam-building into them or out of them any more than you can with a beaver. A beaver wants to build a dam because it is a beaver. Whatever you see people build, that's what they wanted to build from the sticks they got in the river they were in. Stop pretending you can change it.

hoe_math = PsychoMath

1,189,824 views • 11 months ago