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> I never heard him say anything even remotely interesting about ai

Or about anything at all really. I find his blog posts and talks banal and boring, or self-aggrandizing otherwise ("you can bend the world to your will") it was always baffling to me how this guy could achieve this much. I'm probably missing something.




"how this guy could achieve this much"

With all the wisdom that I have gathered in life, I can tell you that achievement- more often than not- is mostly the product of circumstances.

(That doesn't mean I believe in equal opportunities leading to equal outcomes.)


It's circumstances and opportunism.


He achieved because he manage to befriend a bunch of very rich people who are financing him to eventually take ownership of the technology


Yeah. pg/chesky/masayoshi must be really dumb or sth.


Masayoshi really is dumb. PG is smart but he’s a venture capitalist, and so is Sam. His strength is in helping building multi billion dollar ventures and that’s how he ran the company, so I can see how he could run into ideological conflict with the nonprofit true believers.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/11/08/companies/s...




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