Robert Scoble warns that dogmatic leadership at an unnamed hyperscaler AI firm resembles a Montana survivalist cult

I would have these discussions with my mom:

“What if you are wrong and WWWIII never shows up?”

“That means our prayers were heard.”

None of us came up with a way to get her to change her world view.

She died a strong member of the cult.

@Scobleizer Its a battle tried and lost many times before by entrepreneurs. The best and most digestible content on this is: “The Mystery of Stanley Meyer and His Water Powered Car” by the @OMGTheWhyFiles

@monetaryreset He told me my ideas had no business value after I told him to buy all of Web 2.0. He later bought Skype for $6 billion more than if he had listened.

He's not always right.

@IntuitMachine A coherent vision is sometimes a cult.

:-)

@JesseTinsley @OMGTheWhyFiles Yeah, I have hundreds of stories to tell that people have told me over the years.

Like when the execs at Miramar, big Hollywood company, in early days of AI art models, told a guy I know "there's no way people want to create AI films."

@PhillipCMcGuire Why?

You want everyone to join cults where the leader believes she can channel god?

@Scobleizer I love this angle but since this reads like a continuum to something

care to help me with context?

@Scobleizer This is why I insist on joining only cults led by flawed people.

@Scobleizer This is dumb and I disagree

@IntuitMachine @karpathy Yes

@Scobleizer @monetaryreset He was wrong on so many occasions.

@Scobleizer yeah, the second someone thinks they’ve got reality solved, you’re already in trouble. cult logic loves certainty

@Scobleizer I'm not sure... Bill Gates is always right

@Scobleizer every person is wrong. the scary version is where a smart person builds a system where him being wrong gets reinterpreted as being early, misunderstood, or visionary.

@Scobleizer This is how serious I am about my commitment to open weight models

@WarrenWhitlock They wear better hats too in their Sunday rituals. :-)

@wayofhustle Yes:

@gheorgheiuga Yeah makes the belief system harder to dislodge.

@IntuitMachine Cults are very hard to leave.

@gheorgheiuga @monetaryreset Many.