He's a fucking idiot who figured out how to make a web site and got lucky with what he built and when he built it. He is not brilliant by any measure. Fuck him.
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6k words sounds pretty weak for a manifesto. He coulda just written it with ai
I passed it through checkers and it came back not AI. So if AI is an accessible super intelligence, why didn't he access it?
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He told an LLM to make it look authentic.
Yeah that's great Mark, we will all go read this then discuss in the Metaverse that you said would replace office work
He dicked around with tech and made a lot of money. That doesn't mean his thoughts are intelligent. They're self-serving and include future purchasing. What a lack-of-visionary.
Did he even do anything with “tech”? He made a website, and by the time it got to any level of complexity there were people smarter than him doing the real work. And it’s not like MySpace didn’t already exist at the time, so as usual it’s the less creative second person with a few fewer morals who ended up with the big money.
If my air conditioner could talk, it wouldn’t shut up about how hot it is.
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