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Happy. I never heard him say anything even remotely interesting about ai. He seemed a glib opportunist just not dumb enough to know how to sell a product he didn’t understand who eventually would have alienated or pushed out all the smart people who made the company’s and his success.

>>autaut+(OP)
> 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.

>>mojuba+e2
Yeah. pg/chesky/masayoshi must be really dumb or sth.

>>autaut+(OP)
So you don't think the "AI device" he was working with Johnny Ive and Masayoshi Son would have worked out...

>>avindr+g4
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...

>>autaut+(OP)
So what. You dont have to be smart to run something well. See joe biden. It doesnt matter what can be said of you if you're doing the thing. Whats weird is throwing wrench into an engine thats doing really well. Hopefully there is some good deliberation for this.

>>autaut+(OP)
Based on Worldcoin and the Lex Fridman interviews I've long suspected his influence at OpenAI to be limited.

>>mojuba+e2
"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.)

>>rg111+mc
It's circumstances and opportunism.

>>mojuba+e2
He achieved because he manage to befriend a bunch of very rich people who are financing him to eventually take ownership of the technology