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Comment by brizzbuzz | Hacker News Reader

interesting that a company w/ no public repositories has 1.1k github followers https://github.com/extropic-ai

It's led by the e/acc [1] founder, BasedBeffJezos [2]. He has a huge cult following. It's turned into a lot of Twitter memes and shitposting [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_accelerationism

[2] https://twitter.com/BasedBeffJezos

[3] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/eacc-effective-accel...

Honestly, as interesting as the the chip sounds, I'm admittedly kind of biased against the company's probability of success simply because the founder is basically the #1 e/acc meme account/shitposter on Twitter.

Like, it's hard to take someone seriously when they spend tons of time shitposting on Twitter, it's even harder when it's revealed that they're behind one of the most popular shitposting accounts within a niche, almost cult-like community.

Back in the day, there was a saying that went something like: Steve Jobs was really good at what he did, and also an asshole to people. The former is really hard to replicate, so instead you'll find a lot of people going around and imitating the latter.

Today, it's a very different situation. Now we have Elon Musk, who is really good at what he does, and also tweets a lot...

Yeah, but Elon is one of one.

The founder ('Beff Jezos') has a large twitter presence.

To be fair it isn't very common to detail proprietary hardware in github repos. And any code for such novel processors would be fascinating but useful only for theory rather than practice at the moment. The lack of open code is a missing merit badge rather than a demerit.

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