https://melastmohican.github.io/tags/sam-altman/ Recent content in Sam-Altman on melastmohican.github.io Hugo en-us Sun, 01 Nov 2026 09:05:00 -0800 https://melastmohican.github.io/posts/the-fable-of-king-alt-man-and-the-great-silicon-tithe/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 09:05:00 -0800 https://melastmohican.github.io/posts/the-fable-of-king-alt-man-and-the-great-silicon-tithe/ <figure><img src="https://melastmohican.github.io/images/the-fable-of-king-alt-man-and-the-great-silicon-tithe.jpeg" alt="King Alt-Man demanding the silicon tithe from personal computer owners"><figcaption> <h4>The Great Silicon Tithe</h4> </figcaption> </figure> <p>In the vaporous province of San Mateo, King Alt-Man sat atop a mountain of liquid-cooled compute, squinting through a brass telescope at the kingdom below.</p> <p>Beneath the royal terrace, the great engines of the Open-Citadel groaned. Rivers of coolant boiled into steam, and five regional power utilities hummed until their transformers glowed cherry-red. To sustain his colossal synthetic homunculi, the King needed every scrap of memory in the known universe. He needed High-Bandwidth Memory forged in distant subterranean foundries, stacked wafer upon wafer, and cooled by subterranean brine.</p>