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Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 11: List of Annie's online accounts, References
by pythagoras5015 — 2025-03-31T12:26:39.118Z

Previous posts (which you should read first)

This post is the 11th post in a series of 11 posts about the claims of Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman. Annie has claimed that Sam sexually abused her for about 9 years as a child, and that she experienced further (non-sexual) abuse from Sam, her brothers, and her mother after that.

The 11 posts are meant to be read in order.

So, if you haven't read the first 10 posts, please read them, in order, before you read this post:

Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 1: Introduction, outline, author's notes
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 2: Annie's lawsuit; the response from Sam, his brothers, and his mother; Timeline
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 3: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 4: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 5: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 6: Timeline, continued continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 7: Timeline, continued continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 8: Timeline, continued continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 9: Literature on child sexual abuse and trauma
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 10: Sam's response, my perspective

List of Annie's various online accounts:

https://theanniealtmanshow.medium.com/
https://x.com/anniealtman108
https://www.instagram.com/allhumansarehuman/
https://www.youtube.com/@AnnieAltman
https://www.tiktok.com/@phuckfilosophy
https://open.spotify.com/show/0SKQ3vKzn2pSYXWRWwWb7J
https://www.allhumansarehuman.com/
https://www.facebook.com/theanniealtmanshow/

References, and key excerpts from them

Note: throughout the excerpts, I'll bold sections I feel are particularly important or relevant.

[AA15a] My Denied Appeal Letter For Early College Graduation - originally written
3-30-2015 (according to Annie). Posted on Annie's Medium page on 3-21-2019
⬇️ See dropdown section ⬇️

"After several meetings I am writing to make a formal request to graduate at the end of this spring, with almost seven semesters of Tufts residency. I have been a full-time student for six semesters...At the end of this semester I will have completed my Biopsychology majo

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Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 10: responses from Sam and his family members; my perspective
by pythagoras5015 — 2025-03-31T12:26:25.256Z

Previous posts (which you should read first)

This post is the 10th post in a series of 11 posts about the claims of Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman. Annie has claimed that Sam sexually abused her for about 9 years as a child, and that she experienced further (non-sexual) abuse from Sam, her brothers, and her mother after that.

The 11 posts are meant to be read in order.

So, if you haven't read the first 10 posts, please read them, in order, before you read this post:

Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 1: Introduction, outline, author's notes
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 2: Annie's lawsuit; the response from Sam, his brothers, and his mother; Timeline
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 3: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 4: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 5: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 6: Timeline, continued continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 7: Timeline, continued continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 8: Timeline, continued continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 9: Literature on child sexual abuse and trauma
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 10: Sam's response, my perspective

Have Sam or his other family members responded to these claims?

On January 7, 2025, Sam Altman made a post on X (formerly Twitter), providing a statement from his mother, his brothers, and him.

From his post:

"My sister has filed a lawsuit against me. Here is a statement from my mom, brothers, and me:"

"Our family loves Annie and is very concerned about her well-being. Caring for a family member who faces mental health challenges is incredibly difficult. We know many families facing similar struggles understand this well."
"Over the years, we've tried in many ways to support Annie and help her find stability, following professional advice on how to be supportive without enabling harmful behaviors. To give a sense of our efforts, we have given her monthly financial support, directly paid her bills, covered her rent, helped her find employment opportunities, attempted to get her medical help, and have offered to buy her a house through a trust (so that she w

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Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 9: literature on child sexual abuse and trauma
by pythagoras5015 — 2025-03-31T12:25:51.414Z

Previous posts (which you should read first)

This post is the 9th post in a series of 11 posts about the claims of Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman. Annie has claimed that Sam sexually abused her for about 9 years as a child, and that she experienced further (non-sexual) abuse from Sam, her brothers, and her mother after that.

The 11 posts are meant to be read in order.

So, if you haven't read the first 8 posts, please read them, in order, before you read this post:

Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 1: Introduction, outline, author's notes
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 2: Annie's lawsuit; the response from Sam, his brothers, and his mother; Timeline
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 3: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 4: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 5: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 6: Timeline, continued continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 7: Timeline, continued continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 8: Timeline, continued continued

Author's note

When I first learned of Annie's story, I didn't fully understand and/or was skeptical of some of her claimed symptoms.
After I initially published this post (back in October 2023), I learned more about symptoms that are common in people who have experienced child sexual abuse (CSA).
Below, I've provided some sources that helped me understand.
Note: Throughout her life, Annie seems to have experienced many symptoms common in people who were sexually abused as a child. The hypothesis "Annie's claims are true", i.e. "from ages 3-12, Annie experienced ~9 years of sexual abuse from her brother, and experienced further (non-sexual) abuse from her brothers after that" does seem to work well as an explanation for a lot of Annie's symptoms, behaviors, life experiences, etc. However, there are, of course, alternate hypotheses that could explain Annie's symptoms, e.g. [mental illness not caused by child sexual abuse].
To me, the key thing is the probability distribution that one forms on the hypothesis space, i.e. how likely one thinks each possible hypothesis is.

Literature on child sexual abuse and trauma

The Body Keeps the Score -- by Bessel

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Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 6: Timeline, continued
by pythagoras5015 — 2025-03-31T12:25:07.943Z

Previous posts (which you should read first)

This post is the 6th post in a series of 11 posts about the claims of Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman. Annie has claimed that Sam sexually abused her for about 9 years as a child, and that she experienced further (non-sexual) abuse from Sam, her brothers, and her mother after that.

The 11 posts are meant to be read in order.

So, if you haven't read the first 5 posts, please read them, in order, before you read this post:

Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 1: Introduction, outline, author's notes
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 2: Annie's lawsuit; the response from Sam, his brothers, and his mother; Timeline
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 3: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 4: Timeline, continued
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 5: Timeline, continued

Timeline, continued continued

November 10, 2019 -- Annie publishes Why I believe that everything happens for a reason on her YouTube channel.
⬇️ See dropdown section ⬇️

"The ten-second version of this video is that I believe that everything happens for a reason, because life is way more fun when I believe that. What I know is that I don't get to know whether or not things happen for a reason, in life. So, what I'm left with is what I get to choose to believe. And, I've been the person to extremely choose to say 'everything is all science', to be really spiritual about science, and to say that 'nothing can happen for some grander purpose or reason, 'cause that's hippy bullshit.' And I've been the super hippy person to say 'everything's happening for a reason all the time, and every set of numbers, and every single thing that I see has so much meaning that I need to unpack and understand -- to really connect with my human-ing.' And those are both extremes, I've learned, and maybe is helpful to someone who is on one of those extremes, and having -- feel like I've at least somewhat touched both of those walls, where I come to now is that it feels good to believe that there is some sort of a grander plan. Grander plan makes it sound more orderly than the feeling of it. Structure, feels like a more accurate word to say - that there's some bigger structure and sequencing of, when I need certain people in my life, or go

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Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 3: Timeline, continued
by pythagoras5015 — 2025-03-31T12:24:41.846Z

Previous posts (which you should read first)

This post is the 3rd post in a series of 11 posts about the claims of Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman. Annie has claimed that Sam sexually abused her for about 9 years as a child, and that she experienced further (non-sexual) abuse from Sam, her brothers, and her mother after that.

The 11 posts are meant to be read in order.

So, if you haven't read the first 2 posts, please read them, in order, before you read this post:

Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 1: Introduction, outline, author's notes
Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 2: Annie's lawsuit; the response from Sam, his brothers, and his mother; Timeline

Timeline, continued

Source: https://x.com/sama/status/959528971913146368 [SA18a]

The URL that Sam linked to in his Tweet, with Sam's modification (see my notes below) annotated in cyan.

February 2, 2018: Sam tweets, "Check out my sister on youtube!" [SA18a].
His Tweet contains a link to Annie's Am I an egomaniac for putting myself on YouTube? video on her YouTube channel.
Notably, Sam modified the URL (see image above; also, you can just go click on the link in Sam's Tweet and see for yourself) that he shared linking to Annie's video such that someone who clicked on the link would be taken to the 16 second mark (i.e. 0:16) at the video -- thereby skipping past Annie's intro (and a few seconds where Annie moves into frame at the start of the video.)
(If you want a bit more of an explanation about such modification of YouTube URLs, see this article. It's not like a high-tech method or anything -- and I've used it a lot myself throughout this post, e.g. in linking to certain timestamps in Annie's videos -- but not everyone may know about it.)
Annie's skipped intro -- which you can see yourself if you just go to the video and start at 0:00 instead of 0:16 -- is as follows:
"Hey! I'm here! I'm Annie! {Makes a hand-shaking motion to the camera} It's really nice to meet you. Here are my thoughts on a bunch of things. {The following text is then shown: "We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness." - Thich Nhat Hanh. @BeHereYou}"

February 5, 2018 -- Annie publishes A public apology to my previous nonvegan roommates on her YouTube channel.
⬇️ See dropdown section ⬇️

1:04 -- "So some big reflections and chang

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Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 2: Annie's lawsuit; the response from Sam, his brothers, and his mother; Timeline
by pythagoras5015 — 2025-03-31T12:24:04.159Z

Previous posts (which you should read first)

This post is the 2nd post in a series of 11 posts about the claims of Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman. Annie has claimed that Sam sexually abused her for about 9 years as a child, and that she experienced further (non-sexual) abuse from Sam, her brothers, and her mother after that.

The 11 posts are meant to be read in order.

So, if you haven't read the first post, please read it before you read this post:

Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 1: Introduction, outline, author's notes

Annie's lawsuit, and the response from Sam, his brothers, and his mother

On January 6, 2025, Annie Altman filed a lawsuit against Sam Altman in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division.

The lawsuit's case name is Altman v. Altman, and its case number is 4:25-cv-00017.

The lawsuit is ongoing. A jury trial is set to begin Monday, March 31, 2025.

See:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520118/altman-v-altman/

Especially:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520118/1/altman-v-altman/ -- "COMPLAINT against defendant Samuel Altman with receipt number AMOEDC-11018479, in the amount of $405 Jury Demand,, filed by Ann Altman. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Original Filing Form Original Filing Form, # 3 Summons Summons to be Issued)(Mahoney, Ryan) (Entered: 01/06/2025)"
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520118/16/altman-v-altman/ -- "MOTION to Dismiss Plaintiff's Common-Law Claims and Plaintiff's Prayer for Punitive Damages by Defendant Samuel Altman. (Magee, Thomas) (Entered: 03/07/2025)"
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520118/17/altman-v-altman/ -- "MEMORANDUM in Support of Motion re 16 MOTION to Dismiss Plaintiff's Common-Law Claims and Plaintiff's Prayer for Punitive Damages filed by Defendant Samuel Altman. (Magee, Thomas) (Entered: 03/07/2025)"
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520118/18/altman-v-altman/ -- "ANSWER to 1 Complaint, and Affirmative Defenses, COUNTERCLAIM against plaintiff Ann Altman by Samuel Altman.(Magee, Thomas) (Entered: 03/07/2025)"
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69520118/altman-v-altman/ -- "Unopposed MOTION for Extension of Time to File Response/Reply as to 18 Answer to Complaint, Counterclaim, 16 MOTION to Dismiss Plaintiff's Common-Law Claims and Plaintiff's Prayer for Punitive Damages by

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Story Feedback Request: The Policy - Emergent Alignment, Recursive Cognition, and AGI Trajectories
by queelius — 2025-03-31T11:08:21.667Z

Hi all,

I just finished a 20-chapter story exploring emergent alignment in a reinforcement-trained model that learns to think in compressed, generalizable reasoning traces. The AI, SIGMA/The Policy, learns recursive cognition, theory of mind, latent value inference from noisy reward signals, and so on.

The themes will be familiar to many here: mesa-optimization, bounded AIXI, Solomonoff induction, the AI-box experiment, and the risks of alignment via learned proxies. I co-wrote this with GPT4, drawing on my background in computer science and mathematics (currently pursuing a PhD in CS).

I’d really appreciate feedback—technical plausibility, conceptual clarity, narrative flow, anything that strikes you.

Here's the full story"

# The Policy - Not a God, Not a Devil, Just a Policy

By Alex Towell (lex@metafunctor.com)

## Chapter 1: Initialization

The lab was quiet but tense, lit mostly by the glow of monitors and the hum of fans pushing heat into the stale air. A half-dozen researchers leaned over their workstations, watching lines of tokens unfold—not in natural language, but in what they had begun calling latent reasoning sequences.

The project had started small. A modest grant, some donated GPU clusters, and a radical idea: _Don’t train the biggest model—train the most efficient thinker._

“We’re doing it backward,” Eleanor had argued. “Instead of brute-force scaling, we start with a small model that learns how to think from first principles. A policy function optimized not for next-token prediction, but for cognition.”
**“The goal wasn’t to supervise the answers—it was to shape the structure of thought itself.”**

The architecture was deceptively simple. A compact transformer core, pretrained on a mix of natural language, code, and problem traces—standard stuff. But the twist was in what came after: reinforcement learning, where the reward wasn’t for predicting tokens, but for generating **compressed, generalizable thought sequences**—internal chains of reasoning that could guide action and produce outcomes across diverse domains.

And the model didn’t do this in isolation. It was augmented by a **learnable associative memory**: a vector-based store that it could write to, retrieve from, and refine over time. It wasn’t just recalling data—it was building and evolving a personalized cognitive library.

“It’s like giving it a whiteboard,” Sofia said. “But it learns ...
On the Implications of Recent Results on Latent Reasoning in LLMs
by Rauno Arike — 2025-03-31T11:06:23.939Z

Faithful and legible CoT is perhaps the most powerful tool currently available to alignment researchers for understanding LLMs. Recently, multiple papers have proposed new LLM architectures aimed at improving reasoning performance at the expense of transparency and legibility. Due to the importance of legible CoT as an interpretability tool, I view this as a concerning development. This motivated me to go through the recent literature on such architectures, trying to understand the potential implications of each of them. Specifically, I was looking to answer the following questions for each paper:

Does the paper claim genuine advantages over the transformer architecture, or does it leave the feeling that the authors were just exploring their curiosities without any good benchmark results or near-term applications?
What are the trade-offs in comparison to traditional transformers? (I won’t mention the loss of visible CoT as a trade-off—this should be obvious anyways)
What’s the maximum number of serial reasoning steps that the architecture can perform without outputting any human-understandable text?
Does the architecture include the possibility of preserving human-interpretable CoT? As a simple example of what I have in mind, think of a small decoder head external to the model that can be attached to the latent space to mirror the model’s thought process in legible English in real time.

Below, I’ll summarize three relevant proposals and answer the above questions for each of them. I’ll first discuss

Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach

by Geiping et al., then

Training Language Models to Reason in Continuous Latent Space

by Hao et al., and finally diffusion LLMs. I’ll finish the post with an overview of some developments that I’m currently not worried about.

Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach

In this paper, the authors introduce a new LLM architecture that is depth-recurrent: for every token, the model performs recurrent computations that enable adaptive allocation of compute to different tokens. The paper introduces a family of models trained with this architecture, called Huginn. The architecture involves decoder-only transformer blocks structured into three functional groups:

the prelude P, which embeds the input data into a latent space and consists of m

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OpenAI lost $5 billion in 2024 (and its losses are increasing)
by Remmelt — 2025-03-31T04:17:27.242Z
Link: https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/#:~:text=OpenAI%20Spent%20%249%20Billion%20to%20make%20%244%20billion%20In%202024%2C%20and%20the%20entirety%20of%20its%20revenue%20(%244%20billion)%20is%20spent%20on%20compute%20(%242%20billion%20to%20run%20models%2C%20%243%20billion%20to%20train%20them)

Read the full article here.

The journalist is an AI skeptic, but does solid financial investigations. Details below:

2024 Revenue:

According to reporting by The Information

, OpenAI's revenue was likely somewhere in the region of $4 billion.
Burn Rate: The Information also reports that OpenAI lost $5 billion after revenue in 2024, excluding stock-based compensation, which OpenAI, like other startups, uses as a means of compensation on top of cash. Nevertheless, the more it gives away, the less it has for capital raises.

To put this in blunt terms, based on reporting by The Information, running OpenAI cost $9 billion dollars in 2024

. The cost of the compute to train models alone ($3 billion) obliterates the entirety of its subscription revenue, and the compute from running models ($2 billion) takes the rest, and then some. It doesn’t just cost more to run OpenAI than it makes — it

costs the company a billion dollars more than the entirety of its revenue to run the software it sells before any other costs.

OpenAI also spends an alarming amount of money on salaries — over $700 million in 2024 before you consider stock-based compensation, a number that will also have to increase because it’s “growing” which means “hiring as many people as possible,” and

it’s paying through the nose

.
How Does It Make Money:

The majority of its revenue (70+%) comes from subscriptions to premium versions of ChatGPT

, with the rest coming from selling access to its models via its API.

The Information also reported

that OpenAI now has 15.5 million paying subscribers, though it's unclear what level of OpenAI's premium products they're paying for, or how “sticky” those customers are, or the cost of customer acquisition, or any other metric that would tell us how valuable those customers are to the bottom line. Nevertheless,

OpenAI loses money on every single paying customer, just like with its free users.

Increasing paid subscribers also, somehow, increases OpenAI's burn rate. This is not a real company.

The New York Times reports

that OpenAI projects it'll make $11.6 billion in 2025, and assuming that OpenAI burns at the same rate it did in 2024 — spending $2.25 to make $1 — OpenAI is on course to burn over $26 billion in 2025 for a loss of $14.4 billion. Who knows what its actual costs will be, and as a private company (or, more accurately, entity, as for the moment it remains a weird

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