Well until the weird nerds at uni created things like Google, Facebook and so on...

Lol this argument doesn't hold weight.

Do you really want to be an employee? Lets see what your reservation price is first.

Im pretty sure you'd need to be paid a lot to forgo having control over your time and so on. Lets keep it one-hunnid.

That's why I haven't got a job: I enjoy the freedom of working for myself, and I have enough of a financial runway from a previous startup acquisition that I can afford to do my own thing for a few more years.

At some point I'm going to need to get back to earning more than I spend.

Agreed. The preferential treatment is blatant and obvious.

The fact that an old-timer like yourself comes forward and says it means that the newer people aren't nutters thinking it.

"that have not fully manifested yet"

This is not true..

"I find it utterly maddening how divorced STEM people have become from philosophical and ethical concerns of their work. I blame academia and the education system for creating this massive blind spot, and it is most apparent in echo chambers like HN that are mostly composed of Western-educated programmers with a degree in computer science. At least on X you get, among the lunatics, people that have read more than just books on algorithms and startups."

Steve Jobs had something to say about this. Shame hes gone.

Only those with great taste are well-equipped to make assertions about what we have infront of us.

The rest is all noise and personally I just block it out.

Then why are you still here?

Thats all irrelevant. Is/was there tremendous value to be had by being able to transport data? Of course. No doubt about it. Everything else got figured out and investments were made because of that.

The same line of thinking does not hold with LLMs given their non-deterministic nature. Time will tell where things land.

There's value in intelligence too.

Intelligence? No. Get the wording right. It’s driven by probability.

Calling intelligence “just probability” is like calling music “just vibrations” and thinking you said something deep.

"I can see it delivering impact bigger than the internet itself. Both require a lot of investments."

lol.... Just make sure you screenshot your post so you have a good reminder in a few years re. your predictive ability.

Predicting your own victory instead of defending it is a bold strategy.

"You don’t have a solid background.

If you want to go around huffing and puffing your chest about a subject area, you kinda do fella. Credibility.

Not only is what he saying in direct contradiction to what people with credibility have said, but his claimed credentials can be utter bullshit.

This is the internet bro. Credibility is irrelevant because identities can never be verified. So the only thing that matters is the strength and rationality of an argument.

That’s the point of hacker news substantive content not some battle of comparison of credentials or useless quips (like yours) with zero substance. Say something worth reading if you have anything to say at all, otherwise nobody cares.

I wish there was a way to discern posts from legit clever people from the not-so.

Its annoying to see posts from people who lag behind in intelligence and just dont get it - people learn at different rates. Some see way further ahead.

A good way to filter is for you to look in the mirror. Only the person in the mirror sees further ahead than anyone else.