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Re:DOGE employees don't understand the basics of SQL by ahwelitif on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:11PM (#43122361)
I edited my comment to be more clear.

As an ethnically Syrian person, Elon Musk has posted enraging racist epithets about me every single day on his Twitter. I strongly dislike him as a person for his firehose of slander against helpless refugees who aren't so privileged/fortunate as me. Look at how he is speaking towards poor Ukraine!

Despite this, his companies have without a doubt changed the world. His investments into e-banking, reusable rockets, mass market EVs, ChatGPT, Starlink, green energy, etc. sound like something from a comic book into how outsized an impact they make.

Re:DOGE employees don't understand the basics of SQL by scarface_74 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:14PM (#43122389)
He threw money at the problem? Are you really giving him credit for ChatGPT?
Re:DOGE employees don't understand the basics of SQL by ahwelitif on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:26PM (#43122484)
Yes, he threw money to build up teams to solve hard problems. According to this Wikipedia article he was a co-chair of OpenAI when it was founded in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#:~:text=A%20total%20of%... I'm open to being wrong on that though.
Re:DOGE employees don't understand the basics of SQL by scarface_74 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:34PM (#43123051)
According to your citation, there was a total of $130 million invested between 10 people.

He wasn’t actually involved in any of the engineering ir decision making or putting the team together.