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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by jdiez17 on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:58PM (#35920644)
No, at the level of knowing off hand the design considerations down to thermodynamics for practically every design decision that Tim asks about. In many cases to a much greater depth than I, an average engineer, know about these things.
Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by bobsil1 on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:00PM (#35920675)
He can regurg briefings, look again at what he says in anything you’re an expert in. E.g. software: he’s a total fraud.
Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by agumonkey on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:40PM (#35921254)
In my noob eyes, I think he just doesn't care much about software. He kinda have the same radical motto (delete, reduce, combine, forget the past, forget the mainstream.. basically what he says around min 20 in the video above. which is not far from move fast and break things) and he got a lot of success before with that so he just barged in twitter applying this brainlessly.
Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by tmn on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:37PM (#35921212)
The amount of effort people take to try to convince themselves Elon is just a relatively average (or even moronic!) intellect who got successful via non virtuous means is absolutely impressive.

To attempt to be civil, I will also state I find the hero worshiping of Elon to be similarly deranged.

Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by AlchemistCamp on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:36PM (#35921198)
You're replying to an aerospace engineer talking about aerospace engineering.
Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by jdiez17 on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:05PM (#35920740)
The stochastic parrot argument. It seems there’s no evidence that will change your opinion.

Also, have a look at recent unedited videos of Tesla’s self driving. It’s not everything that was promised and it’s much later than promised, but it sure is impressive. However I agree it is being oversold and that’s extremely scummy.

Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by jpamata on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:45PM (#35921320)
With rockets, he is deeply involved in the area and his proficiency have been confirmed by top engineers, a few quotes from them here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

I'm not sure about Elon's proficiency with software, but based on his comments on twitter I'd lean on him being out of touch there. He does seem to be knowledgeable on the AI/DL side though, see Andrej Karpathy's comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703617

Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by dang on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:29PM (#35921926)
Would you please stop posting like this? It's tedious, not what this site is for, and you've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. I don't care whether it's boo or yay, we just don't want shallow flamewars on this site.

Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by bobsil1 on Friday May 12, 2023 @07:05PM (#35923637)
Yes, I’ll stop commenting here entirely. DanG, please delete my account.

Last time I got mod-bonked here, it was over calling Zuck “amoral.” Then all the Cambridge Analytica, Russian ops and boosting right-wing propaganda scandals came out.

I’m positing Elon is an obvious con man. Y’all will get there too 🫡