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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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> Race is a social construct. Age is not. Mixing them up is fundamentally wrong and, I’d argue, dangerous. Even worse. Our entire society, hell our biology is based on old people retiring to leave space for the young to develop themselves. When you got gerontocrats in power for too long and after them boomers, all you'll end with in 20 years is a bunch of dead boomers and gen silent, and a bunch of gen y/z that never…

> Our entire society, hell our biology is based on old people retiring to leave space for the young to develop themselves This strikes me as a spin on the lump-of-labor fallacy. The problem with a gerontocracy is you have masses in cognitive and physical decline at the peaks of power. Absent that condition, the model isn’t fundamentally broken. (You would probably see more patricide in hereditary lines…) Old people a…

> The problem with a gerontocracy is you have masses in cognitive and physical decline at the peaks of power.

Well... that's exactly what we have been able to observe in the US. Trump and Biden are horribly old, both have shown serious cognitive and physical decline with Trump definitely being the more serious issue (I never heard rumors about Biden crapping in a diaper, with Trump the rumors are so consistent they're practically a meme, and now we get to look at his very weird hand with no explanation why it's weird all the time). A bunch of Congresspeople died of old age in office, with the most prominent being Dianne Feinstein. The Supreme Court is even worse, with RBG being the most infamous for not stepping down and allowing Obama to nominate a successor, thus handing the post to Trump.

> Old people aren’t a problem, aged people in command are.

Both are a problem. Old people are vastly more likely to fall gravely ill at any given moment, they take longer to recover, and they take longer to learn new things (or refuse to do so outright). Aged people tend to entrench themselves in their position and fear getting replaced and losing their privileges, often thanks to toxic work ethics.

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

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XAI is very relevant. They have one of the best video models, they own cursor which has a good percent of the coding market. Anthropic runs thier ai on xai’s data centers. Saying they aren’t relevant is comical

>They have one of the best video models In porn and deepfakes. Yeah, they should be regulated to obliteration. >they own cursor which has a good percent of the coding market They don't own cursor. They announced an acquisition immediately after the insane SPCX valuation to desperately scrabble to lock in some of that laughably nonsensical hype valuation (as the entire US equities market has become firmly detached fro…

Musk is winning on all fronts if you hadn’t noticed. Tesla is profitable with 40 billion in cash. Space x just had the biggest IPO of all time and just raised another 25 billion in debt financing.

Getting 15 billion a year in payments for their cluster is hardly “another rent a gpu” operation. It seems mostly your post is motivated by hatred rather than any sort of reality

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>They have one of the best video models In porn and deepfakes. Yeah, they should be regulated to obliteration. >they own cursor which has a good percent of the coding market They don't own cursor. They announced an acquisition immediately after the insane SPCX valuation to desperately scrabble to lock in some of that laughably nonsensical hype valuation (as the entire US equities market has become firmly detached fro…

Musk is winning on all fronts if you hadn’t noticed. Tesla is profitable with 40 billion in cash. Space x just had the biggest IPO of all time and just raised another 25 billion in debt financing. Getting 15 billion a year in payments for their cluster is hardly “another rent a gpu” operation. It seems mostly your post is motivated by hatred rather than any sort of reality

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

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>> “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.

This is going to be the GenX equivalent to the boomer meme about not spending money on avocado toast and save for a house instead.

If you kids could stop wasting money on Spotify and Xbox Live, you could pay $200/mo for ChatGPT Pro to become AI-native.

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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.

If you want to know why you shouldn't choose Windows it makes sense to get Steve Jobs' opinion and then evaluate the opinion.

Instead of listening to the critiques of actual Windows users? Jobs was an evangelist who couldn't see past his Nintendo-esque ecosystem zealotry, didn't use Windows and thereby couldn't understand why Windows won the enterprise and computer gaming market despite its flaws.

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> Our entire society, hell our biology is based on old people retiring to leave space for the young to develop themselves This strikes me as a spin on the lump-of-labor fallacy. The problem with a gerontocracy is you have masses in cognitive and physical decline at the peaks of power. Absent that condition, the model isn’t fundamentally broken. (You would probably see more patricide in hereditary lines…) Old people a…

> The problem with a gerontocracy is you have masses in cognitive and physical decline at the peaks of power. Well... that's exactly what we have been able to observe in the US. Trump and Biden are horribly old, both have shown serious cognitive and physical decline with Trump definitely being the more serious issue (I never heard rumors about Biden crapping in a diaper, with Trump the rumors are so consistent they'r…

your line of thinking isn't going to age well when your future self re-read this.

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

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If you are talking about LinkedIn, I don't know how universally they are considered a tech company. Is any company that does its core business on a website a tech company now, even if their innovations aren't tech? NY Times has some fancy tech, but you'd be hard pressed to consider them a tech company.

Are you seriously trying to argue that companies like Facebook or Netflix are not tech companies? This comment thread is bonkers. I've never seen stuff like this on HN before!

These days every company uses tech in some way. If the bar is "uses tech" then every company is a tech company and the category is meaningless. If you asked a layman to name tech companies, would Disney appear high in their list? What about Ford? Or Chevron? All those companies use tech and all those companies develop new tech. But I think most people would say media company, car company, and oil company. In my mind LinkedIn is close enough to a tech company that you convinced me. But I do think it's a spectrum and Netflix and Facebook are more tech than. LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a sleazy job board or recruiting company. I feel the same way about Craigslist (is that a tech company?) Was Gawker a tech compsny? How about Hertz? A lot of my tech friends used to work at Starbucks but I think most customers don't consider it a tech company.

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> He is prominently placed in the field. No he isn't. He's the LinkedIn guy. That's his only success. Good for him but the LinkedIn founder doesn't know anything baout AI. > Has a lot to lose by knowingly making false statements in public about a competitor. The article ignores the conflict of interest - Hoffman is introduced as: > Reid Hoffman has watched the AI industry from virtually every vantage point—as a found…

FWIW, leaving aside his professional activities (such as the fact that he's currently the co-founder of two AI startups) he is probably the first billionaire to create an "AI clone" of himself, complete with a deepfake video avatar and voice-cloning, trained on all the content he has ever produced (books, articles, interviews, videos): https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ccol5y/reid_h... The interviews are…

What AI startups is Hoffman the cofounder of?

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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.

This is going to be the GenX equivalent to the boomer meme about not spending money on avocado toast and save for a house instead. If you kids could stop wasting money on Spotify and Xbox Live, you could pay $200/mo for ChatGPT Pro to become AI-native.

You should rewatch Office Space, The Matrix or Fight Club to remind you what a typical office job was like in the 90s and what Gen X grew up with. Thinking you are entitled to a fun and creative job is more like a Millenials fantasy to me.

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FWIW, leaving aside his professional activities (such as the fact that he's currently the co-founder of two AI startups) he is probably the first billionaire to create an "AI clone" of himself, complete with a deepfake video avatar and voice-cloning, trained on all the content he has ever produced (books, articles, interviews, videos): https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ccol5y/reid_h... The interviews are…

What AI startups is Hoffman the cofounder of?

His LinkedIn profile lists manas.ai, which is pretty new, and inflection.ai, which has been around for a few years. Inflection released Pi, which was the first chatbot I encountered that kept conversations very interactive by asking clarifying and follow-up questions, whereas ChatGPT and others were very transactional.

However it is probably known more (if at all) for being the company Microsoft "Windsurfed" by licensing all its tech and poaching its leadership team, including the dude who's the current "CEO of AI" at MSFT.

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