From Sam Altman’s blog, pre-OpenAI

  • corbin@awful.systems
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    11 months ago

    Yes, although the veracity of the quote is uncertain; see here for discussion. This is the commonly-cited form that you’ll find all over the Internet:

    Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, then the best way would be to start his own religion.~ Lafayette Ron Hubbard

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      11 months ago

      IIRC, it wasn’t Hubbard who said this, but Ayn Rand, who, at a cocktail party, bet him that he couldn’t start a religion and make money from it.