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by milowata 178 days ago
Wang is a networking machine and has connected with everyone in the industry. Likely was brought in as a recruiting leader. Mark being Mark, though, doesn’t understand the value of vision and figured getting big names in the same room was better than actually having a plan.
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sokoloff 178 days ago
Your last sentence suggests that he willingly failed to take the choice to create a vision and a plan.

If, for whatever reason, you don't have a vision and a plan, hiring big names to help kickstart that process seems like a way better next step than "do nothing".

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gloryjulio 178 days ago
Wang is not Zuck's first choice. Zuck couldn't get the top talents he wanted so he got Wang. Unfortunately Wang is not technical, he excels in managing the labeling company and be the top in providing such services.

That's why I also think the hiring angle makes sense. It would actually be astonishing if he could turn technical and compete with the leaders in OAI/Anthrpic

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canyp 178 days ago
How to draw an owl:

1. Hire an artist.

2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl.

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rickydroll 178 days ago
3. Scribble over the draft from the artist. Tell them what is wrong and why. repeat a few times.

4. In frustration, use some AI tool to generate a couple of drafts that are close to what you want and hand them to the artist.

5. Hire a new artist after the first one quits because you don't respect the creative process.

6. Dig deeper into a variety of AI image-generating tools to get really close to what you want, but not quite get there.

7. Hire someone from Fiverr to tweak it in Photoshop because the artists, both bio and non-bio, have burned through your available cash and time.

8. Settle for the least bad of the lot because you have to ship and accept you will never get the image you have in your head.

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milowata 177 days ago
You’re right – the way I phrased it assumes “having a plan” is a possibility for him. It isn’t. The best he was ever going to do was get talent in the room, make a Thinking Machines knockoff blog post with some hand wavey word salad, and stand around until they do something useful.
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