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by r_lee 75 days ago
I remember him tweeting about how he can "feel the AGI" when speaking to GPT
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Another meaningless, extremely cringeworthy, tweet, hailed as a messianic message by many at the time.
Yeah, it's hard to say if he's doing marketing because that's his job or if he's really swallowed the whole pill
Is it really hard to figure out that the owner of a company, who personally stands to make 100s of billions, would be doing marketing when talking about said company? Do they not teach critical thinking anymore in schools, did it go away with phonics too? Why would you ever ignore the MASSIVE conflict of interest here, it's just really foolish but it's endemic not just in tech journalism or journalism in general where people just take the words of others and not apply any critical analysis to them.

It's all access journalism now, waste of time.

> Is it really hard to figure out that the owner of a company, who personally stands to make 100s of billions, would be doing marketing when talking about said company

The question isn't about what action he's taking, it's about what motivates him under the surface. Obviously what he is doing is marketing. What I'm curious about is whether he truly believes his own marketing or if he is just doing it because its his job

People that are good liars are good at it because they are lying to themselves at the same time. Even if they can initially compartmentalize I believe after a while it gets them too.