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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mrtksn »

CyberMacGyver wrote: post #4

One time they let her speak publicly it turned out to be a disaster. She never had any say and worst part is she was not even a good fall guy, it was clear who’s pulling the strings. The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever. I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept.

I don't think she ever was a fall guy, Elon run a poll on should someone else be CEO of Twitter and lost the poll. It was quite entertaining, He didn't seem happy with the outcome and probably had to pay CEO level salary due to the stunt.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by DealFl0w »

namenotrequired wrote: post #70
DealFl0w wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Chief [Executive Officer]" isn't a role on the platform, it's a role with the company.

The title does literally say she is leaving the platform

Here on Hacker News, we should be good internet citizens and do more than just read the title.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by sorcerer-mar »

mcphage wrote: post #71
sorcerer-mar wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's weird that you say both she had no material power and also seem to imply the valuation drop and lawsuits were due to her ineptitude? Anyway she volunteered to be a puppet for a man who is clearly off the rails and her legacy will forever be stained.

(1) She had no power (2) If she did have power, nothing good happened during her tenure, so what would she even be thanked for?

I'm not suggesting she should be thanked. I'm suggesting that the failures listed are hard to ascribe to her ineptitude.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by zemo »

coolKid721 wrote: post #74
Bender wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not defending Elon or the infobot but my theory is that by leaving that LLM unfiltered people have learned how to gamify and manipulate it into having a fascist slant. I could even guess which groups of people are doing it but I will let them take credit and it's not likely actual neo-nazi's, they are too dumb and on too many drugs to manipulate an infobot. These groups like to LARP to piss everyone off and they ofte…

It's just the prompt: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/commit/c5de4a14feb50... People who don't understand llms think saying don't shy away from making claims that are politically incorrect means it won't PC. In reality saying that just makes things associated with politically incorrect more likely. The /pol/ board is called politically incorrect, the ideas people "call" politically incorrect most of all are n…

it's almost like Grok takes "politically incorrect" to be synonymous with racist.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by steveBK123 »

mandmandam wrote: post #126
josefresco wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both things can be true: Valuation did drop during her tenure, AND she was not to blame. Therefore the praise is weird, because she seemingly neither helped nor hurt the business.

> she was not to blame. Fall guys bear some of the blame in the fall. My long-held [0] personal theory - borne out by everything Musk has done, and by who bought Twitter - is that it was bought to curb the possibility of large positive social movements along the lines of OWS or BLM. Enabling that can entail being useless at your supposed job, while doing your actual job (which deserves some amount of blame, from a nu…

Pretty good theory

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by hocuspocus »

delusional wrote: post #108
jeffbee wrote: post #25

Have any of the people who noisily joined X to make a big impact fast actually had a big impact over any time frame? Remember when G. Hotz said he was going to fix Twitter search in 6 weeks, and then it turned out that G. Hotz is just another midwit like anyone else and Twitter search is still as bad as ever? Yaccarino said they were going to transform Twitter into the "everything app" with payments, marketplaces, an…

> turned out that G. Hotz is just another midwit like anyone else I understand your point, but I think this sort of discourse leads people down the wrong path. G. Hotz is a pretty smart engineer. What he lacks at twitter is probably not engineering ability, but organization ability. The problem is likely not that the individual engineers aren't smart, it's that they end up working together to make each other worse th…

After Elon fired 80% of the staff, I think we can assume that most of the organizational hurdles were effectively gone, and that it was the perfect time for a cowboy developer to jump in and fix something that would have been stopped by conservative approaches and team work before.

If search could have been solved by a single smart person, it would have been done long ago. In the Bay Area, finding a world class researcher (in distributed systems, databases, text search or whatnot) able to do a short stint at a company to tackle a hard problem isn't particularly hard.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by bhouston »

CyberMacGyver wrote: post #4

One time they let her speak publicly it turned out to be a disaster. She never had any say and worst part is she was not even a good fall guy, it was clear who’s pulling the strings. The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever. I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept.

> The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever.

I understand she did convince a lot of advertisers to come back and provided a veneer of credibility.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by madeofpalk »

josefresco wrote: post #43
sorcerer-mar wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's weird that you say both she had no material power and also seem to imply the valuation drop and lawsuits were due to her ineptitude? Anyway she volunteered to be a puppet for a man who is clearly off the rails and her legacy will forever be stained.

Both things can be true: Valuation did drop during her tenure, AND she was not to blame. Therefore the praise is weird, because she seemingly neither helped nor hurt the business.

One would imagine that a CEO lacking power is the precise reason a company would perform poorly.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by ceejayoz »

andsoitis wrote: post #6
ceejayoz wrote: post #5

I guess the Nazi chatbot was the last straw. Amazed she lasted this long, honestly.

As chief, her job is, amongst others, making sure that type of thing doesn’t happen. Outcomes suggests she failed at that. Hopefully the next chief will be better.

Her only true role was to fulfill Musk's silly promise to step down as CEO after a public vote. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097
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