Yes and I don't want that to pollute my timeline
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Considering the massive propaganda operations from both Russia/Ukraine, it's actually not a bad flag.
Sure Ukraine is the good guy, but if you think that Ukraine doesn't run propaganda, you are completely naive.
OTOH, it's the governments that have banned it.
Do you think the citizen's of Italy are better off because of chatGPT?
Corporations are more benevolent than government
Even with AGIs, there is still power in numbers. We still understand how all the mechanical things work. The first attempts of AGIs will be botched anyway.
It's not the AGI will secretly plan for years hiding itself and suddenly launch one final attack.
It's reddit/HN who have never traveled or lived outside US that has jaded your view of US.
You know which country released chatGPT? or NVIDIA A100 or made a huge step towards Quantum Computing / Nuclear Fusion?
I'd rather congress focus on irrelevant details, while startups solve / tackle important issues. When it really comes to it, Congress will get their act together, but anything before is pure meddling in one of the greatest systems that is producing unbelievable innovations at an alarming rate.
May be 100 units to 200 units, who knows
Also, never going to happen.
i) In this world, there are very few people whose private conversation is worth anything to anybody (celebrities, journalists -- so around 10,000 people)
ii) A tiny tiny %age of information is truly secret (mostly private keys).
iii) Business strategies are mostly a result of execution, not any 'trade secrets'. Meta will succeed because it has executed it's metaverse strategy, not because they kept the metaverse strategy secret.
People who take risks and not care about irrelevant details (just like how they took risk with internet shopping, cloud, SaaS) will win. Losers like the ones who thought AWS will steal their data will be left behind
Let me point out the negatives of Elon
i) He is a bull-shitter. He has no clue about a lot of things, yet he has plenty of hubris.
ii) He is mis-trusting of people (this always comes from upbringing and environment. If people constantly misplace your trust growing up, your default is to mistrust people). I can understand why you wouldn't want to work under Elon. That's a perfectly valid reason
What makes Elon different, and which a lot of people don't get about him (including his fanbois)?
i) He is a true Engineer in the sense, even if he starts with bullshit and hubris, he is a quick learner. He breaks things to learn from first principles (Things he has repeatedly demonstrated everywhere). Media/HN focus on him breaking things, but that's what how everyone learns about complex systems.
People don't appreciate how quickly he went from from 'Alien Dreadnought' to 'Tent in a backyard' and then back to AI Automation at Tesla.
ii) Bias for action with the right amount of risks. Some people have bias for action, some people take risks and some are constant learners. But, I have never seen anyone combine all three like Elon. He is successful not because of his knowledge, but his willingness to take risks despite massive adversity and guaranteed mock by media.
iii) He is narcisstic, but not like Trump. He has several times shown self-deprecating humor and acknowledged his mistakes (and quickly learns from them).
So be careful what you wish for
But, I know that shit happens and the reliability meter should be flexible for different things (bridges, heart surgery and chat agent).
If I train my brain to bitch, whine, moan about every thing, I'd not have resources to care about really important things.
If Google Cloud was it's own company, it'd be a fortune 100 firm.
But you keep doing you, living with outdated information and grandma tales. I bet you'd still be telling this joke to your grandkids too
OP is the typical 'sour grapes' dissing on FANG. Why would I want them to work for FANG, if they don't appreciate it?
You have to be hungry for it to want it. They are millions of people who are grateful to work for FANG and I'll absolutely help them
Everything else is useless.
If your co-workers liked you and wanted to say goodbye, they will call and throw a party. If I'm fired, there is no reason for me to log on to my workstation. All relevant documents are given to you anyway. Your personal items will be shipped to you.
I met a guy on a train, who was working as a server, but just had some HTML on his resume. Like OP, most of these people wear that as some badge and can get into FANG anytime. Reality hits when they actually do reply and actually make it through phone screen
Balaji made more than $1 Million on his bet.. Think about it
Through this bet, Balaji instantly increased FOMO among a lot of people waiting in sidelines. This bet has gone viral (and contributing to current BTC's increase).
Balaji has made more than a Million $$$ through this bet, while mainstream is focused on irrelevant details about the bet and laughing at him.
Balaji got what he wants.
FANG still has a very low (<1%) success rate.
So, don't assume that just because you got a recruiter email you'd be qualified to make it
Billions have lives have changed due to these corps, while your Non Profit may affect 100s