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Hacker George Hotz signs on for 12 weeks at Twitter

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Re: Hacker George Hotz signs on for 12 weeks at Twitter

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Post by moistly »

elsurudo wrote: post #6
SilverBirch wrote: post #3

Seems to be following firmly in the footsteps of Elon - starts working at twitter, makes big claims (I'm going to fix twitter search), immediately shows he's out of his depth (Asks for other people to fix twitter search and send him the code MIT licensed) and then gets angry at everyone else when they laugh at this absurd turn of events, gets so angry he then starts bad mouthing the last decade of innovation in the t…

I mean, I know he's a bit of an odd character and a showman, but do you actually think he's that "out of his depth" that he's desperately trying to crib other people's code? He's accomplished some pretty impressive things in a pretty short career – for now I would take him at face value re: asking for code as a clever recruiting strategy.

For example, Dr. Oz was a brilliant heart specialist, but he knows literally nothing about weight loss. One should not take him at face value.

Re: Hacker George Hotz signs on for 12 weeks at Twitter

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Post by Apocryphon »

tibbydudeza wrote: post #20

Just like Elon. I much prefer quiet genius of Carmack to loud self-promoting Hotz - he strikes me as a bit of BS artist but is also talented. Carmack is working on cracking AGI, and he really thinks he might be able to make the leap that escaped others so far - but he will work on it and show something impressive like DOOM or admit it failed like Armadillo. In the meantime, no twitch, tweets or YouTube going off on t…

Carmack is a very self-assured genius, but also seems to have humility or at least an ultra-objective focus that keeps him glued to technical matters rather than playing up his own mystique.
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