> “If the CEO of Boeing or Coca-Cola said, ‘I hope Joe Biden dies a slow death,’ someone would be like, ‘Oh, whoops, that wasn’t supposed to happen,’” he said.
No, they just their customers dead, one way or another.
'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
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#262As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd. Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly. His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed? I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Not sure but I remembered he said fuck Mayweather before: https://x.com/garrytan/status/594730377702297601?s=20
That's just par for the course when it comes to sports commenting.
I'm a little surprised though that a tech person of Asian ethnicity would be interested in boxing, good for him for going against all the ingrained stereotypes.
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#263It was a bad tweet and some people should have an alcohol lock on their social media accounts. But to call it a death threat is just silly.
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#264I have a pitch for a new LLM that will read your tweet before you send it and warn you if it is offensive. $1000/month, half off if you’re a CEO.
Don't need an LLM for that (except maybe to get funding), a plain old classifier would work fine at a fraction of the training & inference costs.
Well you're not going to be able to charge them a lot of money without claiming LLM and you won't get funding, so gotta think about the big picture.
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#265> Tan, for his part, apologized over the weekend, noting that his post was a reference to a Tupac Shakur lyric Ah, so if it's a quote, it doesn't matter, because even though you've decided when to use them, they're not "your words" Thanks, going to publish press releases with Cannibal Corpse lyrics going forward.
can confirm this is taken almost word for word from "Hit 'em up", 2Pac's infamous and apparently (at least partially) sincere response to B.I.G.'s "Who shot ya?"
this song played an important part in the public exchange that concluded with both artists dead from fatal gunshot wounds.
the seemingly out of place "as a record label" portion of Tan's quote probably should have engendered some pause in the discerning reader.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure but I remembered he said fuck Mayweather before: https://x.com/garrytan/status/594730377702297601?s=20
That's just par for the course when it comes to sports commenting. I'm a little surprised though that a tech person of Asian ethnicity would be interested in boxing, good for him for going against all the ingrained stereotypes.
I'm just saying since parent comment says he's a gentle human being but he's been always a foul mouth on Twitter.
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#267This is more of a classic lesson in what effect can alcohol have on one's life and career.
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#268I'm a little bit aghast at all the comments saying this is normal or no big deal. Maybe it is normal (or at least common), but it shouldn't be. If you believe it's no big deal, I can't agree. I can see this kind of behaviour from adolescents, but adults should understand that words are meaningful and have consequences, and that even if you disagree with someone, they're still a human being who deserves some modicum o…
He's paraphrased 2pac is his alcohol fuelled moment
"Fuck Mobb Deep, fuck Biggie Fuck Bad Boy as a staff, record label and as a motherfuckin' crew And if you want to be down with Bad Bo, then fuck you too Chino XL, fuck you too All you motherfuckers, fuck you too (take money, take money) All of y'all motherfuckers, fuck you, die slow, motherfucker"
It's immature and poor judgement but he's apologised for it so I don't think it's fair to drag him down.
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#269As a YC alum who worked with Gary Tan directly, this is… odd. Anyone who knows Gary knows he’s a (relatively) gentle human being. I can’t imagine him hurting a fly. His tweets seem totally out of character compared to the Gary Tan I personally knew. Maybe he has changed? I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Or perhaps the way he is being portrayed is a total character assassination.
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
True; before that you simply had to be “notable”, whatever that meant.
No, before Elon the blue tick was just a blue tick next to your name. Now posts by blue ticks are also sorted before other posts in the interface.
Before Elon, posts on Twitter were sorted and hidden at the whim of engagement-maximizing algorithm. After Elon, the same is the case, maybe with the same tweak to the algorithm.
I thought the idea that timeline sorting order on social media sites is deterministic or scrutable to the viewer is long dead by now - it's not been the case for at least a good decade now!