I’m sick of hearing about “original ideas” as if the typical HN a commenter has very many at all. You don’t need to have “original ideas” in order to create im

I’m sick of hearing about “original ideas” as if the typical HN a commenter has very many at all. You don’t need to have “original ideas” in order to create immense value. Everyone will sit here making a few hundred grand a year and tell themselves it’s because of their original ideas. It honestly probably isn’t. New automated systems that create immense value are worth a bit of fanfare. Self-driving has a fairly uniquely harsh failure mode that means that a worthwhile implementation has to be rock solid. And frankly we’re all sick of hearing Elon Musk pretend otherwise. Outside of self-driving, ‘less than perfect AI’ has wayyyy more opportunity to provide net value. Not being able to see this difference is comparing surface-level properties of two things and drawing a conclusion. The sort of stuff this current generation of AI can do fairly well.