{"id":1012797,"date":"2026-06-06T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012797"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T06:18:59","slug":"quote-of-the-day-by-openai-sam-altman-the-missing-circuit-in-my-brain-the-circuit-that-would-make-me-care-what-people-think-about-me-is-a-real-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/quote-of-the-day-by-openai-sam-altman-the-missing-circuit-in-my-brain-the-circuit-that-would-make-me-care-what-people-think-about-me-is-a-real-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day by OpenAI Sam Altman: \u201cThe missing circuit in my brain, the circuit that would make me care what people think about me, is a real gift\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman doesn&#8217;t think the part of him that ignores what people think is a flaw to fix. He thinks it&#8217;s a structural advantage. The OpenAI CEO has been quoted as saying\u2014&#8221;The missing circuit in my brain, the circuit that would make me care what people think about me, is a real gift. Most people want to be accepted, so they won&#8217;t take risks that could make them look crazy\u2014which actually makes them wildly miscalculate risk.&#8221;\u2014and he has returned to this idea in different forms for years, but the framing here is the sharpest. He treats the need for social approval not as an emotional inconvenience but as a math error, the thing that quietly pulls people away from outsized bets toward ideas that merely look respectable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman doesn&#8217;t think the part of him that ignores what people think is a flaw to fix. He thinks it&#8217;s a structural advantage. The OpenAI CEO has been quoted as saying\u2014&#8221;The missing circuit in my brain, the circuit that would make me care what people think about me, is a real gift. Most people want to be accepted, so they won&#8217;t take risks that could make them look crazy\u2014which actually makes them wildly miscalculate risk.&#8221;\u2014and he has returned to this idea in different forms for years, but the framing here is the sharpest. He treats the need for social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012798,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012797\/revisions\/1012798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}