2 years doesn't seem like a very long time to stay at a company you founded.
I can only imagine what would cause someone to make such a drastic move. If he's going into Venture Capital then he has no problem with the workload.
Elon seems very talented at finding trends and convincing talented people to help him build the future. He seems equally talented at then pushing these same people away.
I have no faith in elon products for one simple reason: if you have talent you have options and if you have options, why would anything elon has tainted be anywhere near the top?
There was a time it was reasonable, early space x days for example, when elon was still managable, easily abstracted away and you were able to work with better funding and less red tape vs other options - but modern times i cannot see a reason one would work with elon unless desperate or in the cult, and lets be honest, you dont reason your way into joining cults.
There's a lot of internal contradiction in his message. One the one hand, he wants to "have a maniacal sense of urgency" and on the other, he thinks that it's "critical to study and advance AI safety... to bring about AI that’s safe and beneficial to humanity". If you're building something that you think is so powerful that you fear for the safety of humanity, then why are you building it at "blistering velocity"? Shouldn't you be taking a more careful approach and studying the impact of what you're building, and then only releasing it if you know it's safe? How do you do that if you are under constant pressure to move faster than everyone else?
"Confirm" implies that others have suggested this? To be clear, my bias is to believe you, but I'd like to have more evidence, or at least more corroboration.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 33.4 ms ] threadI can only imagine what would cause someone to make such a drastic move. If he's going into Venture Capital then he has no problem with the workload.
Elon seems very talented at finding trends and convincing talented people to help him build the future. He seems equally talented at then pushing these same people away.
There was a time it was reasonable, early space x days for example, when elon was still managable, easily abstracted away and you were able to work with better funding and less red tape vs other options - but modern times i cannot see a reason one would work with elon unless desperate or in the cult, and lets be honest, you dont reason your way into joining cults.
e: Ah, flagged and dead. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44897047