• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    Didn’t his own younger sister accuse him of sexually assaulting and raping her when she was a little kid? And then the whole family circled wagons around Sam and claimed the sister was mentally ill?

    I mean, getting raped and molested as a little kid by your older sibling would definitely give you some mental trauma and problems.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      22 hours ago

      kinda odd since hes also gay, but the media almost have very little info about his past. likely suppressed due to him being plucked from obscurity by THIEL.

      • stellargmite@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        19 hours ago

        Karen Hao’s book covers it. But essentially correct. A bit of detail with the family stuff but we do know the guy is machiavellian , a shapeshifter , and that the family did turn their backs on his sister who was effectively homeless and had to turn to prostitution. Needless to say Sam wasnt short of a penny prior to OpenAI days even . Hao is a decent journalist, and her book is the best summary so far I think. This stuff is less interesting than the rest to me however but I guess posing questions of character such as this can help paint the picture.

        • MangoCats@feddit.it
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          17 hours ago

          The picture of the past / questions of character give a sense of what they might do next, but the real questions are what are they actually doing next? Those are the things that need focus, and I get the sense that the current ruling class has learned to manipulate the masses with distractions about the evils of their past in order to get what they want in the future.