.@sama on how to pick high-risk bets, from AGI in 2015 to the researchers he hires today: "When we started, people thought it was totally unlikely or almost impossible that AGI was possible." "We just got hammered by all of the intellectual giants of the field for saying that we were going after AGI." "High-risk bets are okay as long as you take the ones where if they work, it's super valuable."  "And research looks this way. The kind of people that make great researchers are sort of non-consensus, fresh approach, high energy, non-standard people." "You don't want to fund a founder who has a very slightly different take on the same idea as the last thousand people you talked to." "It's very clear when you have someone who just thinks differently and is willing to stand by convictions that are very unpopular. May well be wrong, but if right, at least they're gonna be really right." Sam Altman w/ @davidsenra