On Altman:
"It’s increasingly clear that the board fired him for the reasons they gave at the time: he is not honest or trustworthy, and that’s not an acceptable trait for a CEO!"
My experience, with one personal exception, is that deception and lies are the the hallmarks of a good CEO - good in the business sense. There is something about the kind of person that wants to be a CEO that attracts sociopaths. But I would argue for most businesses a sociopath is what you need to operate in a market environment predicated on preying on the pocketbooks of the populace.
> But I would argue for most businesses a sociopath is what you need to operate in a market environment predicated on preying on the pocketbooks of the populace.
Allowing such a market to arise is a societal problem. Thankfully the future can still be changed, if we want to badly enough
Let's imagine a society where power grabs are checked. Then we have an unstable equilibrium. Lucky and shrewd persons can become able to evade the checks. It's a bit like immunity of bugs to poisons. Bugs that die off don't reproduce so the system is self-selecting to immune bugs.
My experience, with one personal exception, is that deception and lies are the the hallmarks of a good CEO - good in the business sense. There is something about the kind of person that wants to be a CEO that attracts sociopaths. But I would argue for most businesses a sociopath is what you need to operate in a market environment predicated on preying on the pocketbooks of the populace.