18 pointsby SLHamlet12 hours ago2 comments
  • Terr_10 hours ago
    > [11:34] It's almost like Altman wants to build a whole other economy.

    Not-coincidentally, a bunch of the hyper-wealthy financiers in those circles are also involved in attempts to create the 21st-century version of "company towns", where the law is mostly whatever your boss says it is.

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

    • general14657 hours ago
      One thing which any state hate more than unpaid taxes is losing monopoly on violence.
  • sixtyj11 hours ago
    I once read that when a person looks up and to the left while answering a question, they are making something up or lying, while looking to the right means they are searching for the answer.

    Sam Altman looks at _where_ when answering the first question in the video?

    • rkomorn11 hours ago
      Not sure where we all seemed to hear that one (I'm guessing some movie made it a big plot point), but there's at least one actual study that disagrees:

      >In short, all three studies provided no evidence to support the notion that the patterns of eye-movements promoted by many NLP practitioners aid lie detection. This is in line with findings from a considerable amount of previous work showing that facial clues (including eye movements) are poor indicators of deception [1]

      https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

      • sixtyj11 hours ago
        It was in some self-help book about negotiations… Thanks for the link. We (those who read "that" book) should definitely read the article.
    • delaminator11 hours ago
      I read that you can choose your eye movements, and those of other body parts, at any particular moment and deceive anyone who thinks they can determine truths by watching you.

      There are even a group of people who are paid to mimic emotions for entertainment purposes.

    • onetokeoverthe11 hours ago
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