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They dont understand people. They understand how to control people, which is completely different from the context of building products that people want - which requires an underst…

Simon: "I'm frequently finding myself with work on two or three projects running parallel. I can get so much done, but after just an hour or two my mental energy for the day feels …

I think your kind of missing the point. Think about it from a resource (calorie) expenditure stand point. Are you expending more resources on writing the prompts vs just doing with…

In a bizarre way all these new datacentre build outs may have 'fake demand' because of how inefficiently software gets produced.

Thats because the distribution of developer quality and capability is skewed.

What youre pointing at is the trade off between concentration of understanding vs fragmented understanding across more people. The former is always preferred in the context of prod…

" Karpathy did not spend a serious effort of learning to get a good understanding of people This does not come from spending effort in learning people - its more innate. You either…

I personally dont believe he is trying to profit off the hype. I believe he is an individual who wants to believe he is a genius and his word is gospel. Being picked by Elon perhap…

Even so, just imagine staring at yourself in the mirror - watching yourself spout gibberish. These people are beyond pathetic.

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Im gonna go against the grain and say he is an elite expert on some dimensions, but when you take all the characteristics into account (including an understanding of people etc) I …

Legit. I think people spend too much on planning instead of focusing on getting to work and closer to the finished output. If you are fixated on a plan... good luck dealing with si…

lol pretty much. their reservation price was more than met. Although considering Brin's interactions with female employees etc, no surprise really. They were full of it from the of…

"Overly-complex plans, slowly executed against" lol this usually happens when those leading the project have no vision and aren't ruthless about achieving a well-defined outcome st…

Yeah the hardest thing is to focus intensely and have a strong vision for what exactly the output should be directionally. The second hardest is actually getting the project finish…

In the early days they werent a publicy traded company and Brin/Page did not get exposed to the taste of being ultra-wealthy. Steve Jobs looking back now is incredibly rare - someo…

Its seemingly a hedge against not generating enough revenue to maintain existing investor trust / sustain operations in the future.

Because creating real products, like Apple does, is actually pretty hard to do. Many people (such as Scam Altman) are happy to take short cuts and lie in your face in order to enga…

Forget about that, the founders literally said word for word that advertising ruins search quality in their seminal paper. They became the exact thing they fore-warned about their …

Nominal Risk free rate includes expected inflation. Default spread reflects... well the likelihood of default. Cost of debt = rf rate + default spread

Go look up the same word across various dictionaries - they do not have a 1:1 copy of the descriptions of terms. Reproducibility is a separate issue.