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Step by step: A guest gave up an OpenAlice dinner invitation to watch K-Pop—and went to an OpenAI event instead

OpenAlice researcher Ame responds: "We invited them to the dinner—that’s a privilege. If they choose the OpenAI event because of K-Pop, then they’re not serious enough about AGI and may not fit our culture. What we care about is the ground, deep work."

Translate this passage: You’re filtering people—and they’re filtering you too. When your cultural threshold is, ‘You must be serious enough about AGI that you can’t watch K-Pop,’ you’re not only weeding out the unserious—you’re also filtering out people with normal lives.

The very top researchers are often not the ones who ‘only do one thing,’ but the ones who ‘finish the right work and still can watch K-Pop.’ The people OpenAI takes aren’t there because of K-Pop—they’re there because OpenAI doesn’t require you to choose one between K-Pop and AGI.

Culture isn’t something you want to make higher and higher as a threshold. It should be as real as possible.

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