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The idea guy will become the most important role in the coming aeon of AI (news.ycombinator.com)
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[-] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

i love how despite how much people with actual experience try to discredit it, the odea of the idea guy lives on. Esp great if the idea guy is also a "cant tell you my ideas or you might steal them" guy

E: and of course that guy is some basic anti woke guy. Referencing jimmyconcepts 'hoax'.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

a “cant tell you my ideas or you might steal them” guy

This reminds me of A Guy that I knew through an internship at a MegaCorp. After landing a job at said MegaCorp and moving to the MegaCorp Bay locale, former intern Guy hit me up for dinner when he was visiting. With no reason to say no and a plethora of free time, I said, sure.

It turned out that Guy was a total techpilled crank. He was talking like he was giving a TED talk the whole dinner. Some things I remember:

  • "billionaires are good people, actually."
  • "because of things that I know and have learnt, I know I will become a billionaire"
  • Guy was pitching me his "billion-dollar" startup idea of a payments layer for donating to charity. He was convinced that this was an ethical idea. He had no counterpoint when I pointed out that the idea was essentially to skim money off the top of donations.
  • Favourite moment of the night was when he said something to the effect of: "I'm going to tell you a truth that you might not be able to handle", followed by him saying something trivial or banal or otherwise forgettable; I remember reacting with indifferent silence and him going silent, literally shaking with anger, then him breaking the silence with "I'm sorry, I just got really angry for a moment there."

I don't know what guy has been up to since, but my money would be on something LLM based.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

Also into Haskell. Make of that what you will.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I dont judge people for the programming languages they are into, even if they are foolish enough to pick a horrible functional programming language. The madmen.

fun? Nothing about this is fun.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

fn silly is what it is

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