(2013) Funny title change over the years, too Successful People create Religions (19 points, 2013, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6062858

Surely this all depends on how you define 'successful'? If you define success as having the most influence over the largest number of people, then yes, I guess creating a religion would be the right thing to aim for.

From this perspective, success is what you accomplish, and it has nothing to do with why you did it or the effects it has.

the world is created by strong willed men(women).

He talks like a supervillian.

A religion that has a single ultimate human authority at the helm is called a cult.

I wonder if the writings of Sam Altman will be studied in a similar manner to Mein Kampf some day where people try to understand how someone was so unusually charismatic and driven that they were able to dazzle and charm an incredible number of people to participate in rapid and willful destruction of entire segments societies to achieve some contrived "greater good".

... and the mostest extremest top successfulest people didn't listen to Sam Altman back then and won't start now