Comment by bakugo
19 days ago
Karpathy is one of the biggest tech grifters of our time, so finding out that he's jumped on this grift train as well comes as no surprise.
Actually, hang on... yep, to absolutely nobody's surprise, Simon Willison has also hyped this up on his blog just yesterday. The entire grift gang is here, folks.
As a noob here I assumed these are legitimate folks with good intentions. Am I wrong?
Maybe it has always been this way but it seems like these days it's only a matter of time before anyone "authentic" (or at least seems authentic at first) turns into some type of grifter. If you have a big enough following there is too much money to be made not to grift.
How exactly has Simon been grifting?
Visit his site.
"Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now"
It's immediately obvious it's bullshit.
Gonna have to disagree with you there chief.
I've followed SimonW for quite some time and bullshit/grifting is just NOT something he does.
On the contrary, I've learned a great deal from him and appreciate his contributions.
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I completely and utterly disagree. Simon is no gifter. Intellectually lazy snobs think that any time someone has genuine delight and excitement about something that they’re “grifting.” Also, for anyone who is trying (regardless of whether they are succeeding) the to make money—that isn’t synonymous with “grifting.” God, some of you need a better relationship with a dictionary.
Plus, it seems some of y’all love to hate the very industry which puts a roof over your head. You’re hoping and praying that it all burns down—yet where will that leave you? How do you feel about becoming a plumber—-until the robots take that job?
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