Sam might build a nothingburger so tasty it destroys the Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7KI5jON_c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260413-ai-doomsday-cultist-throws-molotov-at-sam-altmans-house - podcast
time: 11 min 58 sec
“A few thousand days” reminds me of how Elon Musk liked to promise he would send someone to Mars in 5-to-10 years, until it was 5 years before his latest deadline of 2031 and he announced that Mars was old and dead and a Moon colony was the new cool.
Intentionally switching to a more trivial scale, while remaining purposefully vague and imprecise, is such a fascinating bafflegab tactic. It’s a giant waving red flag that Altman is bullshitting, but many people (especially in the press!) still take it as profound.