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> we will solve the remaining problems This is the part that really gets me. This is a thing that you say to your team, and a thing you say to your investors,

> we will solve the remaining problems This is the part that really gets me. This is a thing that you say to your team, and a thing you say to your investors, but this isn't a thing that you can actually believe with certainty is it?

lainga 2y ago
Mit dem nächste Kapitalrunde wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.
swyx 2y ago
you need some amount of irrational definite optimism + knowing things others dont to be a good founder. that kind of reality distortion field is why sam is sam and we are here debating phrases on an orange website.
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- Der_Einzige 2y ago
  Related, I tongue-in-cheek believe that something analogous to the actual SCP object for a "reality distortion field" may in fact exist. There is zero good explanation for "Teflon Don" or the North Carolina Lieutenant Governor getting away with all the stuff they do while Al Franken got politically crucified.
  - Terr_ 2y ago
    The least-magical answer for that is that some people have fundamentally different ways of approaching the world, and certain things will be tolerated by certain sets of supporters.
fragmede 2y ago
Why not? People believe in all sorts of weird stuff, theirs just happens to be one you don't agree with. Some people believe there are gods up in the sky that will smite them, and go to war with people that believe in a different god that will smite them for different reasons. Some people believe we landed on the Moon, others do not. What matters is what can you convince others to do based on your rational.
tensor 2y ago
With enough time it seems a reasonable assertion, but the key part is how much time. It feels like he thinks "any day now" where I think it'll be much longer. This all of course assumes that "the remaining problems" means to achieve human-like intelligence, which is perhaps the wrong problem to be solving in the first place. I'd rather have AI systems that don't have human flaws.

lainga 2y ago

Mit dem nächste Kapitalrunde wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.

swyx 2y ago

you need some amount of irrational definite optimism + knowing things others dont to be a good founder. that kind of reality distortion field is why sam is sam and we are here debating phrases on an orange website.

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Der_Einzige 2y ago
Related, I tongue-in-cheek believe that something analogous to the actual SCP object for a "reality distortion field" may in fact exist. There is zero good explanation for "Teflon Don" or the North Carolina Lieutenant Governor getting away with all the stuff they do while Al Franken got politically crucified.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  The least-magical answer for that is that some people have fundamentally different ways of approaching the world, and certain things will be tolerated by certain sets of supporters.

fragmede 2y ago

Why not? People believe in all sorts of weird stuff, theirs just happens to be one you don't agree with. Some people believe there are gods up in the sky that will smite them, and go to war with people that believe in a different god that will smite them for different reasons. Some people believe we landed on the Moon, others do not. What matters is what can you convince others to do based on your rational.

tensor 2y ago

With enough time it seems a reasonable assertion, but the key part is how much time. It feels like he thinks "any day now" where I think it'll be much longer. This all of course assumes that "the remaining problems" means to achieve human-like intelligence, which is perhaps the wrong problem to be solving in the first place. I'd rather have AI systems that don't have human flaws.