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by jallen_dot_dev 1053 days ago
I know you're being sarcastic, but it's shocking how many people think he's actually a genius and all his missteps are really galaxy-brain maneuvers we just don't understand yet. Like, there are millions of them.
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Can't wait to see the promised payment part of "x".

It's gona have crypto and KYC, doesn't it?

Conveniently the advertizers will likely like the additional info.

As will regimes like the saudis.

Anyone who trusts Elmo with any of their money is a damn fool (to phrase it very mildly)

. . . especially after seeing the last 8 months of baldfaced stupidity

I'm told it's going to be half the global economy, I can't wait!
I think I'm going to trust Karpathy on this one over random HN commenters, but that's just me:

"Elon also understands deep neural nets a lot more than I think people imagine. He starts with good intuitions and mental models, but also actively asks for technical deep dives, and has very good retention. E.g. I recall teaching him about our use of focal loss in contrast to binary cross-entropy for the object detection neural net (I said it had given us a 5% bump and he asked to know more) and he understood how it works about as quickly as you'd expect a PhD student to. The fact that he can do this across many technical disciplines is impressive and borderline superhuman. I don't think people understand or would believe how low-level and technical typical meetings with him are. Just saying because I get triggered reading way off innacurate takes on this topic (original comment)."

-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703617

A lot of HN users don't want to hear this, but being good at engineering doesn't mean that you're good at business.
I'm trying to figure out why anyone cares one way or the other
It just fails basic logic, I seriously don’t understand on any level.