• RejZoR@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    He looks so fucking clueless and straight up lost. How is this guy a fucking CEO? Or just a useful idiot for others to complete that Ai circlejerk where everyone is dumping billions into each other companies to pump up the stocks?

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      2 hours ago

      I just want to be clear, most CEOs aren’t smart. They have a slightly higher median intelligence than the wider population, but by and large CEOs are no more talented than your average used car salesman. While there’s certainly outliers (on both sides), most intelligent people don’t start careers in a field with an 80%+ chance of failure in the first 5 years. Altman’s success in particular is 50% luck, 50% being a very convincing liar. These people aren’t geniuses, they pay people to think for them, which is why having a machine think for them sounds like a great idea.

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      3 hours ago

      How is this guy a fucking CEO?

      Wealthy background. Dropped out, got lucky with a startup and sold his stake for a decent sum, gaining enough momentum to keep failing upward.

      The guy is absolutely clueless, which can be mathematically proven on the basis of the fact that he invested in a crypto firm.

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        got lucky with a startup and sold his stake for a decent sum

        He didn’t get lucky… him and others bamboozled investors into buying Loopt which was never functional, once sold, it shut down in months. Exactly what he is doing right now

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4XPu3Qhg

        Early days discussion (what I am referencing here) starts at 2:15

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          I wish I had no morals… Life is so easy when you don’t give a single fuck about what you do to others… It’s so infuriating to see how many wealthy people have amazing lives because they simply don’t give a single fuck about anything but themselves.

          Sociopathy is greatly rewarded in this stupid world we live in. :/

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          1 hour ago

          I didn’t really look into what this startup did, but it doesn’t surprise me. Elon Musk has a very similar kind of story, bullshitting his way to being a billionaire. The system is very heavily stacked in favour of dishonest people.

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            The system is very heavily stacked in favour of people with a lot of money to start with. Then, those that are “willing to risk it” can reap outrageous returns when their longshots come in. We don’t see the losers, but the ones that hit their longshots are what we have “at the top” now.

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      58 minutes ago

      How is this guy a fucking CEO

      I think that psychopaths naturally claw their way up to that position, so it checks out

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      3 hours ago

      A lot of CEO’s could say they have no clue what they’re doing and mostly just ‘faked it till they made it; and still fake it’