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George Hotz against the institutions

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Re: George Hotz against the institutions

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Post by CyberRabbi »

thowaway673y wrote: post #26
CyberRabbi wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nowhere in my comment is there a suggestion that RMS is a “normal human.” If your intention is not to refute my comment but to add unrelated info, then thank you for that info.

Your comments gives the impression anyone could have substituted RMS place in history. I want to point out that this is not the case. RMS is unique in at least 2 ways. One his intellect stands out even among the 100x programmers. Second willing to sacrifice his personal life for a cause he believes in. Its very rare both intersect. You can see either Einstein level geniuses or Activists who sacrifice their personal l…

That’s interesting that you came away with the impression that Stallman is replaceable from my comment given my comment states in literal terms that Stallman crafted an idea that changed the world. What specific part of my comment gave you the impression that he’s replaceable?

Re: George Hotz against the institutions

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Post by dang »

vmception wrote: post #32

edit: alright alright

This is the sort of comment we all make in smaller conversations and it perhaps has more of a function there, but on the internet it just accrues into a big trash ball. That's why the site guidelines say things like this:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: George Hotz against the institutions

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Post by hatware »

marcan_42 wrote: post #8

Reminder that geohot wasn't the first person to jailbreak an iPhone; that's an oft repeated myth. He was the first person to publicly carrier unlock an iPhone, which he did using information and methods he mostly learned from others.

You can say that about anybody, doing anything.

Weird way to show you have a vendetta against someone you likely don't even know.

Re: George Hotz against the institutions

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Post by icelancer »

shimonabi wrote: post #28
trompetenaccoun wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because you found a few buzzwords? It's curious dreamers are often mocked by others. Even more so in this case as many cars already drive around with his garage-built autonomous software. Openpilot is a really cool project, why the hate?

He is a tech influencer with half-baked ideas. Girls post bikini photos on Instagram, he posts coding sessions on Youtube. It won't be long before he starts pulling Techlead-like scams. The article is already pointing to it.

What?

geohot broke the SIM lock on the iPhone, first to do it. Broke the PS3. Broke Android. Developed qira.

Say what you want about the other stuff, but Hotz's resume is impressive.

Re: George Hotz against the institutions

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Post by account-5 »

CyberRabbi wrote: post #31
thowaway673y wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comments gives the impression anyone could have substituted RMS place in history. I want to point out that this is not the case. RMS is unique in at least 2 ways. One his intellect stands out even among the 100x programmers. Second willing to sacrifice his personal life for a cause he believes in. Its very rare both intersect. You can see either Einstein level geniuses or Activists who sacrifice their personal l…

That’s interesting that you came away with the impression that Stallman is replaceable from my comment given my comment states in literal terms that Stallman crafted an idea that changed the world. What specific part of my comment gave you the impression that he’s replaceable?

> What specific part of my comment gave you the impression that he’s replaceable?

I think but obviously can't confirm it might have been this bit:

> ... at least Stallman comes to mind as an example of someone who was able to change the course of history *without much personal power, instead he crafted ideas that had power.*

To me this might be construed as Stallman could be replaced by anyone, since he had little personal power and only crafted ideas; anyone could craft ideas.

I might be wrong though but that would be my guess

Re: George Hotz against the institutions

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account-5 wrote: post #38
CyberRabbi wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s interesting that you came away with the impression that Stallman is replaceable from my comment given my comment states in literal terms that Stallman crafted an idea that changed the world. What specific part of my comment gave you the impression that he’s replaceable?

> What specific part of my comment gave you the impression that he’s replaceable? I think but obviously can't confirm it might have been this bit: > ... at least Stallman comes to mind as an example of someone who was able to change the course of history *without much personal power, instead he crafted ideas that had power.* To me this might be construed as Stallman could be replaced by anyone, since he had little pe…

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Re: George Hotz against the institutions

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Post by taneq »

xiphias2 wrote: post #14
marcan_42 wrote: post #8

Reminder that geohot wasn't the first person to jailbreak an iPhone; that's an oft repeated myth. He was the first person to publicly carrier unlock an iPhone, which he did using information and methods he mostly learned from others.

That may be true, but during the coding videos on YouTube he's extremely smart. My favorite saying of him is that they don't have a cone guy because a self driving system shouldn't contain the knowledge of a cone explicitly. Guess what happened in the last Tesla update: the car went into a cone because it wasn't the usual color.

That’s not a problem with Tesla’s “cone AI”, it’s a problem with their self driving stack’s lack of a “do not drive into solid objects” feature.

It doesn’t matter what a static object is, you don’t drive into it unless you’re dang sure it fits in the class of “things that are safe to collide with.”

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