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

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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'.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

Now im reminded of the guys I met at a student association party (for a student association which had an active boardgaming club) who didn't want to tell me about the boardgame they were developing because I needed to sign an NDA first, and they had no papers with them, and they wanted to see if they could patent the ideas. Such a weird moment to be introduced to people because they are actively trying to develop a board game, and I also liked board games for them to go 'its all a secret'. Can't recall if I laughed in their faces (as well, from what I heard from reading about board game development, NDAs like this were unheard of, same with patents, and nobody is going to steal your idea (and you will not make much money on it)). I didn't even get the genre. (And like I would steal their ideas, I have my own unfinished ideas thank you very much).

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also into Haskell. Make of that what you will.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

fn silly is what it is

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago

Capitalism is a human pyramid made up of idea guys.

Carl Marks, Tha Capital

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Sokka, now's your time to SHINE.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

HN really is an attractor for the most boring people in the world.