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The idea guy will become the most important role in the coming aeon of AI (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Capitalism is a human pyramid made up of idea guys.

Carl Marks, Tha Capital

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the closest i've ever come to being an idea guy is saying 'yeah, i have ideas, they are [shit them out explicitly]. they are half-baked at best but let me know if you do anything with it'

coming up with ideas is fucking easy, for example:

pick a (palatable) villain from anything
put them in a setting that is banal but unusual for them
write jokes

BAM

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

i love how despite how much people with actual experience try to discredit it, the odea of the idea guy lives on. Esp great if the idea guy is also a "cant tell you my ideas or you might steal them" guy

E: and of course that guy is some basic anti woke guy. Referencing jimmyconcepts 'hoax'.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago

a “cant tell you my ideas or you might steal them” guy

This reminds me of A Guy that I knew through an internship at a MegaCorp. After landing a job at said MegaCorp and moving to the MegaCorp Bay locale, former intern Guy hit me up for dinner when he was visiting. With no reason to say no and a plethora of free time, I said, sure.

It turned out that Guy was a total techpilled crank. He was talking like he was giving a TED talk the whole dinner. Some things I remember:

"billionaires are good people, actually."
"because of things that I know and have learnt, I know I will become a billionaire"
Guy was pitching me his "billion-dollar" startup idea of a payments layer for donating to charity. He was convinced that this was an ethical idea. He had no counterpoint when I pointed out that the idea was essentially to skim money off the top of donations.
Favourite moment of the night was when he said something to the effect of: "I'm going to tell you a truth that you might not be able to handle", followed by him saying something trivial or banal or otherwise forgettable; I remember reacting with indifferent silence and him going silent, literally shaking with anger, then him breaking the silence with "I'm sorry, I just got really angry for a moment there."

I don't know what guy has been up to since, but my money would be on something LLM based.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also into Haskell. Make of that what you will.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I dont judge people for the programming languages they are into, even if they are foolish enough to pick a horrible functional programming language. The madmen.

fun? Nothing about this is fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

fn silly is what it is

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Sokka, now's your time to SHINE.