I kind of take issue with the idea that any of the people you listed are overly smart. Bezos, the guy’s a monster but I do think he was a visionary. But mostly they won the lottery with a lucky idea, either their own or someone else’s that they stole. Elon is proof of that with the whole Twitter debacle, and so is Zuckerberg with Meta. They have their handlers to keep them on track. Any time they try to go off and be maverick innovators again they fall flat on their faces. Why? Because, again, the truth is that they just got very lucky the first time. Then they get surrounded by yes-men (and women!) and grifters, and their world gets so distorted they start to believe they’re superhuman geniuses.
Zuck at a minimum has shown applications of the method of paired comparisons, as well as the multiarmed bandit problem, to serve the most effective ad engine of modern history.
It’s arguably an evil invention that spies upon us and feeds us misinformation. But no one can argue against it’s efficacy.
I kind of take issue with the idea that any of the people you listed are overly smart. Bezos, the guy’s a monster but I do think he was a visionary. But mostly they won the lottery with a lucky idea, either their own or someone else’s that they stole. Elon is proof of that with the whole Twitter debacle, and so is Zuckerberg with Meta. They have their handlers to keep them on track. Any time they try to go off and be maverick innovators again they fall flat on their faces. Why? Because, again, the truth is that they just got very lucky the first time. Then they get surrounded by yes-men (and women!) and grifters, and their world gets so distorted they start to believe they’re superhuman geniuses.
Zuck at a minimum has shown applications of the method of paired comparisons, as well as the multiarmed bandit problem, to serve the most effective ad engine of modern history.
It’s arguably an evil invention that spies upon us and feeds us misinformation. But no one can argue against it’s efficacy.