Mastodawn

Guess what job Mark holds? He is VC. No wonder he said AI will replace all jobs except his own because he is so special. He said AI will write software, create music, direct movies, write best novels, perform surgeries on human hearts, and whatnot. The only thing it won’t be able to do is invest money as a VC, which must be reserved for special people like him. #ai

@nixCraft It's funny because I'm relatively certain his job can be replaced with a D20 and a bag of money.

@art_codesmith @nixCraft once read that a study found there to be surprisingly well-performing portfolios held by the illustrious group of ... dead people. Maybe Marc's a member, at least he doesn't seem at all well to me.

@art_codesmith @nixCraft IMO it is funny because (not even kidding) I think that VC might indeed be something that could be done well by some machine learning thingy (avoiding the term "AI", because it is not "I").

@nixCraft he's such a asshole

Kid Mania May 1

@rickpelletier @nixCraft
I think you might mean 'craven piece-of-shit.'

@nixCraft he's clearly never had to do anything with a legacy codebase.

EaterOfSnacks May 1

@nixCraft There's always going to be room for those who practice traditional crafts. Making guillotines, for example.

franco_vazza May 1

@nixCraft and what is meant by VC by the way

@franco_vazza @nixCraft I think it's venture capitalist... But also just guessing

franco_vazza May 1

@Bene @nixCraft thanks! Ok...next I will need to Google what that even means, but it's my problem I guess.

naught101 May 1

@franco_vazza @Bene @nixCraft TBH, I suspect not knowing what VC means indicates that you're doing life correctly.

franco_vazza May 1

@naught101 @Bene @nixCraft ahahahah maybe. It's just that I've never dealt with a VC, whatever this is, in astronomy, it's not their habitat it seems.

@Bene @franco_vazza @nixCraft I was thinking to Vibe Coder 😅

@Bene @franco_vazza @nixCraft I think you mean vulture capitalist.

@franco_vazza @nixCraft Im just spit balling, but maybe "Vulture Cunt"?

@franco_vazza @nixCraft

Venture Capitalist, basically someone with money who invests in companies, usually at the early stages.

Hyperlink Your Heart May 1

@nixCraft Guy who has never experienced art: "my investment decisions are art, actually"

Stefan Ritter May 1

@nixCraft The most demanding role for Vincent D'Onofrio in a long time.

@nixCraft @catsalad What a fucking knob

Weltzeitgeist May 1

@nixCraft VCs are modern slaveholders. The most parasitic class in our times. The scum of the earth.

Alessandro Corazza 🇨🇦May 1

@nixCraft "there's an intangibility to it", unlike highly tangible and methodical things like creating music or a novel.

@nixCraft AI can already do VC work… it’s proven capable of burning other peoples’ money and being right about once in every twenty attempts.

Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬May 1

@timoj @nixCraft this sounds worse than just hiring an orangutan to do the job

CartyBoston May 1

@nixCraft Look, you can care or not care but every frat party that he walked into, everyone stopped and thought "what is up with that dude's head?"

The trauma changes a person.

@CartyBoston @nixCraft Leave humpty alone!!

CartyBoston May 1

@nixCraft the rare circumstance when the ad hominem is the least cruel of the alternatives.

@nixCraft when anyone whose job isn’t literally art of some sort says “there’s an intangible quality to it”, it means they don’t actually understand their job. This is ok… until they, like Marc here, try to claim that it’s inherently not understandable.

Alongside all the other problems, that’s a hell of a lack of humility

Seth Galitzer May 1

@nixCraft Oh how the mighty have fallen. I suppose everybody has forgotten what he did before he became a colossal a-hole. Too late now because he's a colossal a-hole.

DcnPat NE4PO May 1

@nixCraft I would argue AI is more suited to making VC decisions. It's very good at taking in large datasets and discovering "hidden" patterns.

Krautnapped™May 1

@nixCraft It’s cause AI doesn’t yet have the classic Silicon Valley egg shaped head.

Elias Mårtenson May 1

@nixCraft more art than science? Does he mean the art that he claims that ai can do?

Al & Val's Modern Homesteading May 1

@nixCraft Unlike, of course, Wall Street.

Marko Vujnovic May 1

@nixCraft Investing money is more art than science, but art is 100% science.

@nixCraft to me it sounds he operates on pure luck only! Hubris!

Rene Wooller May 1

@nixCraft this is great example of how a technological singularity must be preceded by a capital singularity, unless we create system change.

It’s not hard to imagine that anything would be more tolerable than a capital singularity.

@nixCraft When the first AI invests successfully, the VC ladder will crumble and all these chodes will come falling down off it.

It will be glorious 😩

intersexprogresspride

@nixCraft ~~taste, psychology, chaos tolerance~~ patterns. AI is gonna love it, Marc. This is class-war propaganda.

Daniel S. Reichenbach May 1

@nixCraft what he is actually saying is that VC follows no verifiable principles and everyone in it just makes stuff up every day. So it's actually the one job any LLM could take over currently.

Jason Stuart May 1

@nixCraft So if it's more art than science, and AI is already "replacing" artists..... Do these people even listen to themselves?

Negahyphen May 1

@nixCraft It's funny since AI is already outperforming all human traders in the stock, bond, and other asset markets. I thought this guy styled himself as a futurist?

Dan Sugalski May 1

@nixCraft Gotta admire, or at least boggle at, the ego of someone willing to stand up and say "we suck at our jobs, no really we're *horrible* at them!" in pubic with no sense of shame, irony, or self-reflection.

@nixCraft ah yes VC, truly the hardest and most important profession in the world

@nixCraft They truly think they can surpass their nature as a human being with money.

@nixCraft the entire investor class should just be put on a big yacht without internet access and sent on a never ending cruse. Of course we'll send them supplies. All the champagne and caviar the ever wanted. Then they can lecture each other all day and the rest of the world is much better off.

Ministerofimpediments May 1

@nixCraft “…it takes a special kind of intelligence to piss away billions of dollars on other people’s bad ideas. AI can’t do that…a dartboard could…unless you are good at darts in which case it can’t. Anyway, I actually need to go…my wife’s purse dog needs a new LV collar in beige. I’m taking the jet…no the place is about 15 minutes away. I’m just going to have the pilot take a few loops around the city to relax and come back.”

Bill, organizer of stuff May 1

@nixCraft Richard and Daniel Susskind, in The Future of The Professions, cite a survey that ended up concluding that the vast majority of professionals believe that AI can replace almost every profession - except their own.

@nixCraft if we could have replaced Mark with AI 20 years ago we would be much better off now

Noortje Van Leeuwen May 1

@nixCraft whats vc?

GutterPoetry May 1

So AI can't do narcissism?

~* Sarah 🇨🇦May 1

@nixCraft don't venture capitalists just buy up useful, functioning companies, run them into the ground and then sell off the parts? How is there any art to that?

K. Reid Wightman

@nixCraft Nobody tell him that one of the first machine learning companies I knew of was in the early 2000s, and it was...stock trading.

Willow "Wolveric" Catkin May 1

@nixCraft If Hitman taught me anything, it's that I don't want to be at the mercy of a surgical robot...