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I wonder how much stock people put into people like Andrej's opinion on an Elon Musk project? I would imagine the overwhelming thing hanging over this is "If I
by LittleTimothy 2y ago
I wonder how much stock people put into people like Andrej's opinion on an Elon Musk project? I would imagine the overwhelming thing hanging over this is "If I say something that annoys that man, he is going to call me a pedophile, direct millions of anonymous people to attack me and more than likely will attempt to fuck with my job via my bosses".
Let's say the model is mediocre. Do you think Karpathy could come out on X and say "this model sucks"? Or do you think that even if it sucks people are going to come out and say positive things because they don't want the blow back?
- jngiam1 2y agoI thought his Twitter post was fair and covers both things that worked and things that did not.
- braden-lk 2y agoYeah, how can you honestly review something associated with the world’s most powerful person? Who’s also shown they’re willing to swing their weight against any normies that annoy them?
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- niceice 2y agoHe's trustworthy. If he had that level of neuroticism he would just not say anything or only offer surface level praise.
- BoredPositron 2y agotbh with his startup doing absolutely nothing I can smell a hint of „please hire me back“.
- signatoremo 2y agoHe didn't just gush about Grok 3. He detailed his tests which appear to be reproducible, what he did, which one passed, which one failed.
- bko 2y agoHave you been on X lately? Half of the tweets are insulting Musk, regardless who or what you follow
- NewJazz 2y agoYeah but those people don't have anything to lose by saying that. They're either nobodies or politicians/celebrities that are well known for being liberal. Just because they won't face consequences, doesn't mean Karpathy won't.
- ein0p 2y agoKarpathy knows Musk better than the vast majority of people - he worked for him for an extended period of time when he was head of AI at Tesla. We're likely talking personal phone number and getting invited to dinner kind of "knows", it was early enough. He also spoke about Musk and his management style favorably in various public talks. But when it comes to feedback on the model - if you read Karpathy's post, it's not all positive. It is a strong model (eval scores attest to that), but it is still deficient in some niches, and he points that out.
- niceice 2y agoKarpathy, Carmack, Andreesen, Jensen, Dawkins and others who know him IRL say the same. It's endlessly curious how people who don't know him are confident they know better.
- archagon 2y agoMany people who work under him say he’s the worst kind of seagull boss imaginable: swoops in, understands nothing, fires people for funsies, gives unreasonable orders, and leaves. Don’t be around when Musk is at the office is a common refrain. But yeah, I’m sure he presents himself well to his C-suite “peers.”
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- amazingman 2y agoCan confirm via anecdata: some people have always seen him as the narcissist child he is, and have proactively avoided reporting to him in any capacity. A few years ago I found this perplexing and hyperbolic. Boy was I wrong.
- ein0p 2y agoWho specifically? Could you name names? Or are you going to ask us to believe without evidence that the guy who got FIVE mega-Unicorns off the ground (3 of them "impossible") "understands nothing"?
- HumblyTossed 2y ago> ... direct millions of anonymous people direct millions of anonymous bots FTFY.
- comfysocks 2y agoI like Karpathy, but I find it odd how he always backs up his former boss’s technological assertions, even the more controversial ones. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him openly disagree with Musk.