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

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Post by shimman »

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…

People like Reid Hoffman do far more damage to the Democratic party than he does helping it. Also don't look well that a member of Epstein's tech leadership, and personal friend, is telling workers how to feel and think.

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Post by brazukadev »

BluSyn wrote: post #51

Compared to what? All the comments seem to agree, but I curious if people here have actually used Grok. I rotate between major models frequently. Grok has been up there in accuracy and research for some time, trading places with Gemini IMO. Latest 4.3 release has been solid. Composer is pretty good and now they own Cursor. Don’t count them out yet. So.. it’s bad, compared to what? Claude from 2 months ago?

> All the comments seem to agree, but I curious if people here have actually used Grok.

you got your answer already. Nobody actually uses Grok.

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

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Post by emil-lp »

jknoepfler wrote: post #224
emil-lp wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I sincerely hope this comment is satire.

I forgot the `/s` and now my Karma is gone...

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Post by bobson381 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #226
bobson381 wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it is the first time we have harnessed all of the energy on the planet at once to power a single interconnected advanced system across continents. Mostly I'm drawing from a thermodynamics outlook[0]. previous collapses had unused high quality energy in other areas to fall back on. I'd love to read more about the growth towards China being sustainable in that sense. [0] https://youtu.be/5WPB2u8EzL8?si=doERoIYuYZYHLAAZ

> first time we have harnessed all of the energy on the planet at once How are you defining “all of the energy on the planet”? By conventional definitions, no, we harness a tiny fraction of even just insolation.

Hmm. Mainly that access to much larger quantities of energy than before in the form of oil/coal/gas enabled the creation of a much more complex system than before, with a higher metabolic need.

Ongoing servicing of that metabolic need requires continuous access to the same or greater amount of energy year after year. The world burns through its annual resource budget in July this year.

As we continue to extract more and more, the energy return on energy invested goes down, so net energy availability drops, making it harder and more expensive to continue the current basal metabolic rate, let alone fueling continuous growth. Because so much is built atop the energy mechanism, instability happens when it's threatened or changed.x

So maybe a better turn of phrase would have been that it's the first time we've harnessed so much energy at once and effectively put a lot of energy slaves to use per each person. Like starting to use fossil fuel to create fertilizer that enables more people to survive famines, you create a scenario where you need ongoing access to the same or greater amount of energy just to keep up. Not saying it was the wrong choice, just that we tend to fix issues by making more complex solutions that introduce future resource need.

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Post by officeplant »

blenklo wrote: post #32
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

How is he less relevant than Elon Musk? He co-founded linkedin a platform every one knows. Elon Musk invented the Cybertruck and has a weird cult following through Tesla. i mean Elon Musk called some of his kids this: X Æ A-Xii Musk, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk and Techno Mechanicus Musk What opinion should i give more value?

>He co-founded linkedin

That alone should be justifiable cause for exile from society.

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Post by midasz »

nh23423fefe wrote: post #211
midasz wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We made that world. There are very smart people who spent their talent making the most addictive social media as possible.

As if being addicted is somehow exonerating. Inverting the valence doesn't work.

I think the comparison TikTok and Philip Morris tracks. Both spent insane amounts of money and talent optimizing the bad choices the addict could make.

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Post by jimbokun »

win311fwg wrote: post #214
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…

And even if they buy into what he is saying, that particular group are college graduates . They have already passed the window of opportunity one normally has to explore new ideas. They are in the phase of life where they have to hunker down and get to work. If this "generation AI" ever comes to fruition, it will be those who are still young enough today to be able spend most of their time playing.

People should stop exploring new ideas the second they graduate college??

Sounds like a sad way to live.

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Post by [deleted] »

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 jimbokun »

jedimastert wrote: post #153
andsoitis wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

The usage of the phrase has evolved into a thought terminating cliche.
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