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He has a certain charm and seeming sincerity when he talks. But the more I see of him, the more disturbing I find him -- he combines the Mark Zuckerberg stare with the Elizabeth Holmes vocal fry.


Do you have a link to a video of Altman's voice shifting from controlled deep to nasal? The videos of Elizabeth Holmes not being able to keep up with the faked deep tone are textbook-worthy...


so all psychopaths do, aren't they?


CEO's have been studied to have a disproportionately higher rate of psychopathy. So there's a little correlation. You don't get to the top of a company in this kind of society without having some inherent charm (assuming you aren't simply inheriting billions from a previous generation).


All power position attract psychopaths, so naturally we find more when we look at those.


Not the physically violent ones with impulse control problems.




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