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by option 216 days ago
This isn't a comment about Sam Altman, but given Gary's track record, why would anyone listen to him?
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Care to enlighten those of us that know nothing about Gary's track record?
He posts some variant of this kind of anti AI piece roughly every two months for over 20 years. He's been wrong so far. Eventually he'll get lucky, but his track record is abysmal.
Has he been wrong about everything? I doubt that. It's also a logical fallacy to dismiss his current argument because he's made wrong arguments before. What he's saying about Altman lying is true or false independent of anything else he's said prior.
point here is that his signal/noise is very poor, and the reason why people upvote him is because they agree with the headlines
Gary is a bit of a stopped clock that always says the same time and is right occasionally. His basic position is these neural network things are not much good, they won't do whatever the current claim is.
Why comment then?