Given his statements in recent years I highly doubt he will be good at choosing good people.
Which statements do you mean? Do you think decisions like funding Vassar for MetaMed or Eliezer to research AGI suggest bad judgement?
If you don't look at the decisions about how to fund with his own money, do you think the CEOs that funders fund chose in the last years were bad picks?
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