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[password321]

This comment managed to blow my mind. Are we really trying to say the cofounder of DEEPMIND is too stupid / incompetent to have graduated from Oxford and came up with a charity as a front for it?

[didibus → password321]

That's absolutely possible, I don't know why people think entrepreneurship requires a high level of intellect, it doesn't really.

Not to say this guy is stupid, I just don't see why you'd associate founding a company with intellect?

[bluepizza → password321]

Not really about being stupid or incompetent, but about managing workload, subjects, pressure.

A lot of people don't deal very well with this, especially young students.

He was not the cofounder of Deepmind while he was a student. That happened afterwards.

[qeternity → password321]

He was a childhood friend of Demis. The cofounder title seems to be less profound here.

[password321 → qeternity]

Ok so the new theory is that there is nepotism present at DeepMind thanks to Demis Hassabis.

[qeternity → password321]

That’s not at all what I suggested. It seems like you just want an argument.

Let me explain again slower: you implied that him being cofounder conferred some level of competence to him. I’m saying that he’s not really a cofounder in the traditional sense of the word, and so maybe that title doesn’t carry as much weight here.