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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Isn't/wasn't he a programmer? He can't possibly believe what he is saying.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know some really damn delusional programmers.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I once saw a supervisor use Google sheets to do a simple calculation. Could have opened the windows calculator, could have typed it into Google, could have done lots of things. But no, they created a new Google Sheet, performed one arithmetic equation, and then closed the browser.

I was so amused by this that I decided to program a 10-key calculator complete with memory recall in Google Sheets using Google Apps Script. I've made some wild Sheets over the years and have abused spreadsheets into things they're not, but that's my favorite, most useless Sheet ever. Whenever I show it to people, their first reaction is, "yeah, that's a calculator, that's a pretty simple tool." But then when they realize that I wrote actual code to assign values to add then clear checkboxes and then store all these values, they look at me with genuine concern.

I know this isn't the kind of delusional you're talking about, but just wanted to share.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He was a psychology major that made a website with PHP. His background in CS is taking a few classes before dropping out.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

At least use Wikipedia before talking nonsense.

Zuckerberg learned computer programming in his childhood. At about the age of eleven, he created "ZuckNet", a program that allowed computers at the family home and his father's dental office to communicate with each other.[10] During Zuckerberg's high-school years, he worked to build a music player called the Synapse Media Player. The device used machine learning to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot[11] and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine.[12]

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

he worked to build a music player called the Synapse Media Player. The device used machine learning to learn the user's listening habits

Oh, so then he did already establish what superintelligence is.

(I miss original Pandora)

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

okay. his background in CS remains a couple of classes before dropping out. i graduated from college around when he would have and this was every fucking CS major their freshman year. he talks about programming the same way every revolutionary code messiah who had coded some mildly impressive utilities does before they spend time studying the theory behind computation and learn what the real limitations of these things are. but VCs love the code messiahs. hence SVB going bankrupt. none of these dudes are as smart as they've convinced the rest of the world they are

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Zuck hasn't touched code in decades. He's far too busy cheating on his wife at the Jeff Bezos / Elon Musk Underaged Orgy Tent for that nonsense.