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Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Re: Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Post by FeteCommuniste »

mahoho wrote: post #148
alpineman wrote: post #98

>> “I’ve been thinking about writing an essay on the kind of mistakes that are made by college graduates booing or otherwise dissing AI,” he said. As if speaking to all of Gen Z, he added: “You guys have the opportunity to be generation AI—where you come into the workforce saying, ‘I know this a lot better than all of you" Quite patronising. Maybe they really do know it a lot better than you, Reid, but not in the way…

It's time to give up your silly cynicism, embrace being a professional slop shoveler and doing work with higher volume, more repetition and less creativity than ever.

The sloppings will continue until morale improves.

Re: Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Post by stackghost »

trollbridge wrote: post #40
expedition32 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's like saying nobody should have listened to MLK criticising segregation because he hated the KKK.

I think that’s a pretty inappropriate comparison and you should withdraw it. Please edit your post?

lol, far more odious things get posted every day on this website.

Re: Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Post by jedimastert »

andsoitis wrote: post #143
jcgrillo wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such an out of touch attempt to get the youths onboard the hype train.. ok boomer.

> ok boomer. Reid Hoffman is not a boomer. He was born in 1967. Also: ageism isn't sexy.

The usage of the phrase has evolved past carrying about the actual generation (kind of like how people still talk about "millennials" like they're college students).

Also, Hoffman very intentionally opened the door to talking about generational differences, this kind of feels like the commenter may have touched a nerve

Re: Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Post by indoordin0saur »

not-kinsale-joe wrote: post #81
ryno364 wrote: post #19

Reid Hoffman hates Musk. Think what you will of Musk (we all have our opinions), but Hoffman criticizing one of Musks companies is the equivalent of Steve Jobs criticizing Windows. Its a personal quibble and therefore not really news worthy.

Steve Jobs did have valid criticisms of Windows.

Saying it's like Pepsi criticizing Coca Cola is probably a better analogy.

Re: Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Post by CamperBob2 »

xnx wrote: post #87
AJRF wrote: post #20

How is Reid Hoffman relevant? Someone like Elon being asked for their opinion on tech - I kind of understand - was at least at the coal face of SpaceX and Tesla for a time, seemed to understand the tech and was not terrible when it came to direction. Zuck I'd get, Bezos, Dario, Sam - but I don't actually get why Reid is always in the conversation - he's never been in front of anything

Is Elon credible? He's been wrong so so many times about "full" self driving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

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Re: Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Post by emil-lp »

mahoho wrote: post #148
alpineman wrote: post #98

>> “I’ve been thinking about writing an essay on the kind of mistakes that are made by college graduates booing or otherwise dissing AI,” he said. As if speaking to all of Gen Z, he added: “You guys have the opportunity to be generation AI—where you come into the workforce saying, ‘I know this a lot better than all of you" Quite patronising. Maybe they really do know it a lot better than you, Reid, but not in the way…

It's time to give up your silly cynicism, embrace being a professional slop shoveler and doing work with higher volume, more repetition and less creativity than ever.

I've embraced it, and I'm coding faster than all my colleagues, some days I open more PRs than the rest of my team combined.

Re: Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

andsoitis wrote: post #143
jcgrillo wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such an out of touch attempt to get the youths onboard the hype train.. ok boomer.

> ok boomer. Reid Hoffman is not a boomer. He was born in 1967. Also: ageism isn't sexy.

> Also: ageism isn't sexy

Biology is ageist. The youngest baby boomers are still in their early 60s, and not yet subject to a precipitous-decline cut-off, but the median Boomer is about 71 and probably past it [1].

Given every President since 1993—with the exception of Obama—was born in 1942 or 1946 [2], I think it’s fair to admit this whole an-eighty-year-old-is-the-same-as-a-thirty-year-old tripe has swung to an untenable extreme.

Race is a social construct. Age is not. Mixing them up is fundamentally wrong and, I’d argue, dangerous.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4906299/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit...

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Post by moralestapia »

I wish there as chrome extension that surrounds pdf file names with something like the infamously misused (((...))).

So that you are reminded, as you read about them, that they were one of Epstein "associates". Nothing wrong with that, of course, I'm sure it was only business deals, etc...

Re: Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Post by nailer »

AJRF wrote: post #20

How is Reid Hoffman relevant? Someone like Elon being asked for their opinion on tech - I kind of understand - was at least at the coal face of SpaceX and Tesla for a time, seemed to understand the tech and was not terrible when it came to direction. Zuck I'd get, Bezos, Dario, Sam - but I don't actually get why Reid is always in the conversation - he's never been in front of anything

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Re: Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

xnx wrote: post #87
AJRF wrote: post #20

How is Reid Hoffman relevant? Someone like Elon being asked for their opinion on tech - I kind of understand - was at least at the coal face of SpaceX and Tesla for a time, seemed to understand the tech and was not terrible when it came to direction. Zuck I'd get, Bezos, Dario, Sam - but I don't actually get why Reid is always in the conversation - he's never been in front of anything

Is Elon credible? He's been wrong so so many times about "full" self driving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...

He's said many things that didn't come to be but since he controls over a trillion dollars in assets, anything he says will be impactful, perhaps even more so if it is something incorrect.
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