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I'm not sure why people put so much emphasis on the valuation of X?

It's pretty clear that Musk doesn't care about the valuation and views it as a passion project.

1) He literally told advertisers to go fuck themselves

2) It represents a miniscule portion of his net worth.

Very useful, thank you very much for sharing.

Could you give a range if possible? I've always been curious as to what those salaries are like.

Are we talking 300-600k / yr? More?

Thank you

> a majority doubt the official narrative these days (that LHO acted alone), but it was much lower in the past

Ah okay, didn't realize a majority of people still doubt the official narrative. Thanks for the link.

But yeah, it was previously at 11% believed official narrative and has now risen to 30% it seems.

The House Select Committee on Assassinations was established to investigate the assassinations of JFK and MLK.

After their investigation, they concluded that the official narrative was most likely wrong and they found a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy.

There were no investigations after that..

> Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy. Other scientific evidence does not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President. Scientific evidence negates some specific conspiracy allegations.

> The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee is unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy.

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-repor...

Funny enough, if you look at polling data of Americans... amongst people who actually lived during the JFK assassination & later investigation and kept up with all the details.... only about 11% believed the official narrative. More than 80% thought the official narrative was a lie.

Nowadays (when most Americans have just read about it in history textbooks), it feels like most people believe the official narrative and dismiss conspiracy theories as "crazy".

Oh... I didn't realize you could change the link like that?

Uhh isn't that a big flaw with HN if you can?

(for example, link to a blog post that would be popular with the community to get upvotes, then switch it up for your own company blog or something to get the traffic)

Lmfao I think this is the actual video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4

Somehow OP must've linked to the RDCWorld video by mistake and somehow this still got to the top of HN?

I guess HN just upvotes without clicking the link?

Nah Andrej is still active on [Twitter](https://i.imgur.com/KEa6dx4.png)

I'm guessing he's less active now because he's back at OpenAI and not on sabbatical anymore.

The entire discussion is based on subject matter experts. I asked you to name a few and you didn't name a single one.

> My friends left. I left.

Ok? That has no relevance to our discussion.

> because the subject matter experts whose real-time thoughts we used to follow have left the platform

Do mind naming 10 subject matter experts who've permanently left twitter?

I'm really curious as to which communities used to be vibrant on Twitter and then died after the X switch over.

Yeah, as you stated, my personal experience is that all the communities I follow continue to be active.

> Scientists, mathematicians, journalists, authors, comic book people, and so on.

Intersting, I haven't had a single person leave. People make a big fuss about leaving, but the traffic you get from Twitter is too attractive to leave.

> What I now see are people with demented political opinions about women and American politics. It sucks.

As I said, that's because you're not using lists. It's literally impossible to see posts from accounts you don't like if you're using lists.

I'm guessing

1) HN readers don't like Elon Musk (I don't like him either) so they don't like Twitter

2) I implied HN readers are doing something wrong (as any other human being, they don't like being told that)

3) I (slightly) insulted the intelligence of HN readers by saying they didn't know how to use Twitter and they really don't like that

I've just gotten downvotes and no one's responded with any actual rebuttals so I don't think what I've posted is wrong.

Yep exactly. I’m also a big formula 1 fan and it’s the only place where I can get insight from engineers who are involved in the day to day of building race cars for ex.

Reddit’s f1 subreddit has really degraded in quality unfortunately (just people posting clickbait articles).

It’s the same for investing, politics, cars, poker and everything else I enjoy.

Yep exactly, that too!

Interesting because the content I get on X is far, far more valuable than HN + Reddit + Facebook combined.

It’s the only place you can follow subject matter experts and get their real time thoughts.

I think people on HN just don’t know how to use Twitter?

If you want to use it effectively, you have to utilize lists. Curate your own lists or find someone you respect and follow their lists.

If someone is posting things you don’t enjoy then remove them.

Frankly, if X is causing you to be angry/depressed then a big part of that is on you.

> Still, despite being high-status, well-compensated jobs, those doing DEI work endure extensive burnout, resulting in high turnover, and have an average tenure of only three years.

....what? Three years is really long?

Gergely Orosz has a good post on this where he splits it into companies that have engineering as a "cost center" vs. a "profit center" https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/profit-centers-co...

I know exactly what they are and I stand by my statement.

Sure, I don't like drug cheats either. But if you're actually interested in the fighting, then his style is one of the most interesting & creative.

That's great, but if I ever see a jumping spider in my house then I will not hesitate to murder it in cold blood.

Yep, a lot of people haven't realized how insanely popular UFC has gotten.

It has a larger worldwide fanbase than baseball & NFL since every culture understands fighting (whereas a russian or chinese person probably doesn't know the rules of NFL or baseball).

Movie fight scenes seem a lot less entertaining when I can see a Jon Jones fight.

People are also learning a lot more about the art of fighting and because of that movie scenes just seem ridiculous.

> false positive rate of 0.01%

What would be an acceptable false positive rate for something like this to be used at schools and universities?

Like, obviously 0.01% is not acceptable, but what would be?

It's a series A. Thinking about the moat in a hot market like vector DBs is a great way to miss out on unicorns.

Uh no? Every functioning system we have on the planet is hierarchical. And each system has a different degree of effectiveness & success with some being more corrupt than others.

Just dismissing everything as "welp, that's just hierarchical power structures" is dumb.

That's the cool thing about aligned incentives. If the plane is fucked for you, then it's fucked for the flight attendants & pilots as well.

The landing page looks nice, but it makes the content 20x harder to read.

Yep, that's the case with 99% of self-help books. Even really fantastic books like Atomic Habits.

Now, I solely consume books like this by turning them into a PDF/txt file and uploading it to chatGPT. Then I just ask it for a chapter by chapter summary and give the book a skim.

You can finish the entire book in 30 mins and get 95% of the concepts.

Here's the actual article from Sam Altman's blog - https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

This just some SEO-optimized rewrite from Business Insider.

Interesting. I've noticed that they have a lot of books in "early release", so they're half-done.

But yeah, even despite that, I still think it's a good deal just for the back catalogue.