Soccer GOAT Analogies
Comments compare top performers in AI/tech (e.g., LeCun, Meta hires) to legendary soccer players like Messi and Maradona, debating if the greatest individuals succeed in any team or context.
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Didn't a similar thing happen with a famous Soccer player?
...you don't understand the "hype" around the best player in the history of the game?
LeCun is great and smart, of course. But he had his chance. It didn't go that well. Now Zuck wants somebody else to try.Messi is the best footballer of our era. It doesn't mean he would play well in any team.
cant wait until he becomes the Jordan of the sport
RIP - Best football player of all time
A few amazing players surrounded by scrubs
Only one other player stands out as much. It seems silly to say that either should have been an accountant, because if he were, then the same arguments would apply to the other.http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lionel-messi-is-impossib...
you can't compare the numbers. you have to look at their games in the era in which they were played.
The Golden hand of a famous footballer came to mind immediately.
Someone who was ACTUALLY an even better human than [player of sport he played].