Charles Smith’s Reviews > Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI > Status Update
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Peculiar how cloistered folks don’t understand the problem of gaps in their corpus due to blind spots in their depth of knowledge.
— Apr 21, 2026 09:21PM
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Charles Smith
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Was not expecting such a strong signal overlap with the third act of Fame (1980), BUT HERE WE ARE.
— Apr 27, 2026 11:27PM
Charles Smith
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Apparently the global south has parallel issues to General Smedley Darlington Buttler’s War is a Racket points 2, 3 & 4.
— Apr 27, 2026 03:29AM
Charles Smith
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So you named your text to imagine generation tool after unapologetic serial [REDACTED] and you wonder why things digressed on surreal levels?! Freud and Jung are probably not needed for the association culpability dance.
— Apr 26, 2026 04:26AM
Charles Smith
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From Valenzuela and Kenyan exploitation to Effective Altruism [EA] via Sam Bankman-Fried.
— Apr 24, 2026 10:30PM
Charles Smith
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They know how bad it is… that is why they prioritize such fascinating efforts to keep investigations and documentation opaque.
— Apr 24, 2026 04:26AM
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Insightful read following Colson Whitehead’s Crook Manifesto, BUT here we are. Hopefully this non-fiction tale treats folks’ corrupt proclivities better.
— Apr 20, 2026 09:22PM
