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>> figure out how to innovate on the financial model Does it feel rather Orwellian that the original geeks now seem to be the same people who - forget about cl
by skeeter2020 1y ago
>> figure out how to innovate on the financial model
Does it feel rather Orwellian that the original geeks now seem to be the same people who - forget about claiming technological innovation of as their own - completely discount it and apparently the important thing is now the creativity in funding an enterprise? We don't hear about the breakthroughs from the technologists, but the funding announcements from th investors and CEOs. It's not about the benefits of the technology, but how they're going to pay for it. Seems like a wildly perverse version of wag the dog...
- whimsicalism 1y agothis is all a function of the media reporting, the change in ‘nerd culture’ has been vastly overreported. these companies are staffed by spectrum-y nerds that we are being desperately propagandized into thinking are actually frat ‘bros’.
- programjames 1y agoNo, they aren't. Locally, the person with the most esoteric knowledge is probably a weird nerd. It's mostly an accident that they chose to invest time in things typically associated with smarts. But globally, the best wizards got there by making it their profession. So maybe at your middling university, the people who could land a job at a frontier lab were nerdy wannabe frats, but at decent universities like MIT or Tsinghua, they're usually just better in every aspect of their lives. E.g. MIT has "math olympiad fraternities" all the cool kids join.
- whimsicalism 1y agoI went to a top 5 ranked school globally (~these lists fluctuate) and have been in elite circles since then. I can promise you that even there the autistic nerd fully outcompetes the renaissaince man.
- yahoozoo 1y agoSomeone named Altman focusing on the money? Color me surprised.