[crispyambulance]

  > When I look for people to take advice from I want to see a pattern of home runs, that they can deliver repeatedly...

That's fine, I guess, if your idea of "success" is apple-scale product home-runs (good luck with that).

For those of us with more modest aspirations, listening to a cool person talk about cool stuff is a far better of use of time and attention.

[jjulius]

Right? OP asked a very subjective question on a public forum and is bristling that other's worldviews/desires/goals are different from his.

[stavros]

The only people I see bristling are the ones who don't want to hear an uncomfortable viewpoint.

"When it comes to jobs, I'd rather listen to a business wizard from 2011 than a technical wizard from 1981" is hardly contentious, but if people liked hearing "AI has changed the world and you're all fucked", the students wouldn't have been booing in the first place.

Honestly, if you don't like what Eric Schmidt was saying, you should have a long hard think about whether unchecked capitalism is really as great as advertised.

[itsalwaysgood]

This is a topic about predicting and preparing for the future.

If you want to be snarky: this is hackernews, not reddit. Bring some logic into the discussion and stop fishing for points.

[jjulius]

>This is a topic about predicting and preparing for the future.

This is a discussion that started about preparing for the future and has spawned multiple[2], fluid threads[3] of conversation[4] that aren't quite in line with "predicting and preparing for the future", some even with their own throwaway responses unrelated to "the topic"[5]. Should we lambast the person who posted the Lisp joke, too?

This particular conversation chain is about how one measures success, which I've discussed with logic in a separate[0] response. Future success looks different for all of us, and there are a wide variety of ways for us to get wherever those goals are.

>If you want to be snarky: this is hackernews, not reddit.

Oh, no snark was intended. OP asked a question on a public forum and started getting snarky themselves[1] towards people who shared their subjective response, and my intent was to point out that it's OK for us all to view success differently.

>... stop fishing for points

Is this not snark based on your own assumption that I care about meaningless internet upvotes?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235299

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235315

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234258

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234631

[4]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234238

[5]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234819