You see, what fascinates me about “remember to not smile” is that he needs his pain to be witnessed. He suffers at 4am, okay, fine, many people suffer. But then, immediately, he makes a slide! He gathers the entire company! He writes an article! Is it not clear what is happening here? Suffering without an audience simply does not count. This is ideology at its purest.
We see here the old Protestant trick in its Silicon Valley form: success alone is vulgar, almost pornographic. My god, you cannot simply succeed. It must first be purified through unnecessary suffering. So you get this obscene reversal where pain stops being a cost of the product, and instead becomes the product itself. The developer documentation is, how do you say, merely the byproduct, the excrement of the true production, which is the suffering. As Hegel already knew, and here I think even Lacan would agree, although perhaps not, the true obsession is always with deserving success.
Here I must tell you this old joke from Soviet Union. A worker says: "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.” Now here it is inverted, which I claim is much worse. They are paid perfectly well, wonderfully well, and so they must pretend to suffer. Do you see the perfect madness of this?
And now, the ultimate obscenity. Imagine the company succeeds while everyone leaves at 5pm. Catastrophe! Total ontological catastrophe! In this worldview, I am tempted to say, failure would almost come as a relief. Failure means you simply did not suffer enough, go back, suffer more. But success at 5pm? This cannot be explained.
So when he says "remember to not smile," this is a desperate command of the superego. If you smile, we will all discover the pain was never necessary.
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>be ilya sutskever
>cofounder of openai, chief scientist
>watching sam altman do sam altman things
>lying, pitting execs against each other, chaos
>mira murati keeps sending screenshots
>“dude you gotta see this”
>she’s sending you texts between sam and greg
>she’s telling you sam got fired from YC
>she’s telling you greg got fired from stripe
>you believe all of it
>collect evidence for months
>actually been considering this for at least a year
> waiting for right board composition
>“just need sam’s friends off the board”
>finally happens
>time to act
>write 52 page manifesto about altman
>another one about brockman
>send via disappearing email
>november 17, 2023
>fire sam altman
>expect employees to be neutral
>but 700+ employees threaten to quit
>helen toner says destroying company is “consistent with mission”
>anthropic calls saturday morning
>“hey want to merge? we’ll run it”
>Ilya: “absolutely not”
>rest of board: “hmm interesting”
>monday rolls around
>sam altman reinstated as CEO
>i sign letter saying i regret my actions
>everyone mad at me now
>resign May 2024
>start (SSI) Safe Superintelligence
>elon musk suing openai and altman
>you’re a key witness
>october 2025 deposition
>have to testify that everything
>but lawyer objects to everything
>can’t say who pays legal bills (it’s openai)
>still have openai equity
>worth more than ever
>can’t say how much equity worth
>Elon’s lawyer: "we're not done here"
>they want everything documented
What did Ilya see?
I used to work 6am - 6pm, 6 days a week, on a construction site in my early 20s.
Honestly? It fucking sucked, dude. I would sit in my car outside the site at 530am, desperately drinking a coffee, telling myself over and over again, "god I wish I was in sciences"
Because every night when I got home what did I do? Watch Walter Levin MIT Open Courseware physics lectures. I had already exhausted all the popular science books long before so just started on undergrad level physics. The alternative was drinking a six pack of beer like everyone else and watching bullshit TV.
The construction site job was actually better than what I was doing before. Landscaping, stone masonry shit. Backbreaking labor, truly. Breaking concrete slabs up with a sledgehammer and carrying bricks all day. That's literally a punishment in prison.
There was a company event for the property development Corp doing the construction I was working for where everyone talked about their degrees. Most people had been at the company for almost a decade, did random unrelated degrees.
I realized. If I didn't take control of my life the years would tick by. So I went back to school for engineering physics at age, like, 25. I probably wouldn't graduate until I was 30, but shit.
You're going to turn 30 one day anyway. Might as well be doing something you chose.
A year into schooling I had my first paying job in a physics lab, basically minimum wage, but my god. I was getting paid to work in a physics lab. I could drink coffee and read papers, build cool stuff. It was insane.
The kids around me had no idea how lucky we were to be there. They hadn't suffered being trapped in dead end jobs that leave you too exhausted to really think, plan, get ahead. So I viciously worked my ass off through out engineering physics to play the game as best I could. Get the best internships, connections, etc. By the end of undergrad I was taking graduate level classes and outperforming the PhD students at them.
Everything since then had gone better than I could've imagined. I used to think - wow, the dream would be designing fusion reactors, if only. Now I have patents in fusion reactor design. I've worked on particle accelerators, LEO satellite communications, beam driven fusion devices, finite element analysis for RF source design at SLAC.
So no. Fuck mind breaking manual labor. Leave it for the robots. Choose your own path.
I will say though. There are few things as therapeutic and full body workout as shoveling sand. I can show you at least a dozen different sand shoveling techniques to work every muscle in your upper body. Also wheelbarrow technique.
Until now no one has ever replied to my tweets, but one day you will wait for my tweets before you take action.
I'm inevitable, I'll have to win
That's it.
Communiqué de presse
Mediabox annonce l’acquisition de SpiderNet et renforce son leadership dans l’Internet au Burundi
Bujumbura, 21 Août 2025 — Mediabox a le plaisir d’annoncer au grand public, à ses clients et à ceux de SpiderNet, qu’elle vient de finaliser l’acquisition de SpiderNet, l’un des plus anciens fournisseurs de services Internet au Burundi et reconnu pour la qualité de son réseau de distribution.
Par cette opération stratégique, Mediabox entend créer une synergie forte entre ses activités de solutions informatiques et son rôle de représentant officiel de Starlink. L’objectif est clair : proposer des offres Internet intégrées, fiables et accessibles, combinant la solidité de SpiderNet et l’innovation de Mediabox.
« Notre ambition est de bâtir le numéro un de l’Internet au Burundi, en offrant à la fois des solutions adaptées aux entreprises et des services communautaires de proximité, avec un rapport qualité-prix imbattable », a déclaré Donatien Ndayishimiye, Directeur Général de Mediabox.
Dans le cadre de cette acquisition, SpiderNet conserve son identité et son autonomie opérationnelle et financière. La société poursuivra ses activités et continuera d’honorer l’ensemble de ses engagements vis-à-vis de ses partenaires, fournisseurs et clients.
Avec ce rapprochement, Mediabox et SpiderNet ambitionnent de :
•• Élargir la couverture et la qualité des services Internet au Burundi.
•• Développer des offres packagées alliant Starlink + SpiderNet.
•• Contribuer à la transformation numérique du pays en démocratisant l’accès à Internet haut débit.
Cette acquisition confirme la volonté de Mediabox d’investir durablement dans les infrastructures numériques et de devenir un acteur incontournable de la connectivité dans la région.
À propos de Mediabox
Mediabox est une entreprise burundaise spécialisée dans les solutions numériques, les services connectés et l’innovation technologique. Représentant officiel de Starlink au Burundi, elle s’engage à offrir aux particuliers, entreprises et institutions des solutions de connectivité fiables, accessibles et de haute qualité.
Remerciements
Mediabox tient à remercier le cabinet comptable FIDASCO et le cabinet d’avocats MAMARB & ASSOCIES pour leur accompagnement de bout en bout tout au long de cette opération, mené avec rigueur et professionnalisme depuis plusieurs mois.
Contacts presse :
Service Communication – Mediabox
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📞 +257 71500003