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He’s a great educator and seems like a genuinely nice guy, at least on interviews. I hope he continues with his teaching career on the side, although the crazy
by tedggh 5mo ago
He’s a great educator and seems like a genuinely nice guy, at least on interviews. I hope he continues with his teaching career on the side, although the crazy amount of NDAs he probably had to sign may make that effort a bit difficult.
- ActorNightly 5mo ago[flagged]
- whatever1 5mo agoYou can still respect the work of someone who is a complete pos. The same way you can criticize the bad work of a very nice person.
- Cupprum 5mo agoWhat does PoS mean?
- its-summertime 5mo agoin this context, "piece of shit"
- joeyhage 5mo agoThere’s a lot of nuance to this. Regarding the former, what if someone used unethical or illegal means to produce the work? And regarding the latter, we can choose to provide constructive criticism out of kindness. Apathy or silence is a disservice to others in some cases.
- ActorNightly 5mo agoMusk being a PoS is a separate issue. My main concern is Karpathy taking about Musk as someone who is smart and makes good technical decisions. From all the interviews and stuff that came out within the past few years, its pretty clear that Musks only contribution to anything is just throwing money at stuff while also scamming suppliers, governments, and so on. The dude has no technical knowledge of his own, he just lies and lies about what actually happens, and takes credit for accomplishments that aren't his. When you hear someone who is supposedly smart talk about a dumb person like he is smart, it raises questions on whether that person that is doing the talking is actually smart.
- dmarcos 5mo agoI have the opposite impression. I have consumed tons of hours of interviews with Elon and he comes off as more technically sound and speaks more substance than any other large org CEO I can think of. Karpathy worked directly under him. I haven’t worked for Elon but know people that did and experience is similar. What makes you think you are right? edit: typo
- ActorNightly 5mo agoa) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkNkSQ42jg4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkNkSQ42jg4. That alone should be enough to discredit someone. There was a viral tweet that went something like "I didn't know anything about cars, so when I heard Musk speak about Tesla, I believed him. I didn't know anything about space, so when I heard Musk speak about SpaceX, I believe him. I know a whole lot about software, so when I heard Musk speak about Twitter, I now know that he was full of shit when it came to Tesla or Space X". b) Musk has made crazy amount of promises and predictions, none of which turned out to be true, and his history is full of dumb ideas and decisions. He literally drove a truck to the Twitter server location, and started ripping out servers, despite people telling him that it will break stuff, and then when it broke stuff, he was like oh, you are right. Is that indication of someone intelligent? c) Intelligence is not separable by topic. There are no smart people that are conservatives. There are conservatives who remember a whole bunch of technical information and appear to be smart, but information recall is not intelligence. Being able to analyze reality and determine what is true is not is a core skill, and if you apply that to politics or social issues, you end up pretty much center left in terms of political spectrum. Musk is solely on the far right. Someone who is so convinced in his conspiracy theories absolutely does not have the mental machinery to correctly parse technical topics.
- _doctor_love 5mo agoI think that's being unfair and I really don't like Elon Musk. But I don't think it's fair to say Elon is stupid / a bad engineer. When John Carmack speaks well of his talent, I take that seriously.
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- alexandre_m 5mo ago> Its a bit concerning when someone supposedly intelligent still speaks somewhat highly of someone so clearly not. Have you considered the possibility that someone you regard as extremely intelligent is speaking from real-life experience and direct proximity when they say another person is smart? Or perhaps your bias toward Musk make that impossible to even consider.
- toxik 5mo ago[flagged]
- geon 5mo agoHim being a nazi, or at least enough of a sympathizer to make a salute is not related to him being an idiot. He is both, but it’s irrelevant in this context.
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- bigyabai 5mo agoThat was probably the first thing they considered. Afterwards, you usually reflect on other "totally smart" executives like Gates, Jobs, Altman... all of whom are both criticized and appraised by their peers in equal measure. In hindsight, it's easy to assess that Gates was a charming moron, Jobs was an overeager egoist, and that Altman is a sociopathic liar. All of the white knights defending their boy genius narrative are contradicted by their asinine philosophies, and in Elon's case he's simply undermined by all of his broken promises, random accusations and manic paranoia.
- its-summertime 5mo agoDo you have examples of these points?
- trollbridge 5mo agoPublicly disavowing Musk is going to be a bit difficult when his new employer just leased an entire datacentre from Elon Musk's SpaceX. Anthropic and Elon Musk seem to have quite warm feelings towards one another lately.
- quaddoggy 5mo agoYes, the world absolutely needs more purity tests. Would you like to take the lead? Oh, and shaming. We should definitely be shaming more people because it has proven to be so productive.
- junofan 5mo agoIt’s Manichaeism. A proselytizing religion for those without religion.
- weinzierl 5mo agoHe is a great educator, not only for ML. He taught speedcubing under the badmefisto pseudonym.
- j_bum 5mo agoOh my god, my two worlds just had an insane collision. I learned speed cubing from badmefisto when I was in middle school, ~16yr ago (today my ao100 is ~15s). I never knew it was Karpathy. What an insane knowledge drop. Thanks for sharing!
- prodigycorp 5mo agoWTF, THIS WAS KARPATHY?!
- perfect_wave 5mo agoi still probably have my paper print outs of OLL/PLL pdfs somewhere...
- kopirgan 5mo agoGuess these prodigys have brains that are cross functional. Like Magnus Carlsen predicting premier league.