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Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by fragmede »

themitigating wrote: post #513
braingenious wrote: post #121

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What sort of decisions or behavior would lead you to believe that somebody is stupid?

I'll bite - the ability to explain why you think a certain way or did something (i.e. when you ask a child why they threw a glass they'll say "I don't know" - the speed at which you learn/process new information - the ability to understand your emotions and the level of control you have over them - your willing to engage in debate - how inquisitive you are

In addition to "I don't know" is "I messed up". Everyone does stupid things occasionally. Stupid people double down on their stupidity once they realize what happened instead of owning up to it.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by fundad »

throwntoday wrote: post #206
KMag wrote: post #169

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Elon could both be smart and making huge mistakes. It happens all the time.

I think they are laying the groundwork to allow creators to monetize their tweets and additional content. As it stands a lot of creators are monetizing their content off platform (patreon, substack, youtube, onlyfans, etc.) and the goal is to lock them and their content into twitter. I think it's a good idea as content is king, but they should have rolled this out after they had established an ability to monetize. On…

Hoping they can restore brand safety to pull that off.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by fragmede »

abdabab wrote: post #411
jerlam wrote: post #365

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Counterpoint: Netflix, which did a lot of layoffs in the 2000s and as the story goes, redesigned their entire HR process around 'lean'.

I’m sure Netflix in 2000 had a lot simpler tech stack than Twitter in 2020. However your point is taken.

I'm not sure. 2000 is pre-AWS which means a lot of easy things were more complicated than they are now. Though Twitter is famously on-prem as well, so maybe they're equivalent?

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by landemva »

hprotagonist wrote: post #878
landemva wrote: post #848

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> try and salvage their shitty, shitty ideas into workable projects that will end with us publishing. Maybe the university publish or perish system is the real problem, with the egojerks being symptoms?

no; the pathology is independent of social system.

Do you mean that the system is not the problem, but the pathological people running the system are the problem?

Why does USA bother with the trope of invading countries "to spread democracy" if USA could just install one chosen person who rules as we want?

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by xnx »

pg wrote: post #350

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…

You can fix policies, but trust is very difficult to build back. Elon is very lucky there's not a viable alternative to Twitter, otherwise there would be a true Myspace to Facebook style exodus.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by myko »

pg wrote: post #350

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…

> I still think Elon is a smart guy

Against all available evidence

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by sanderjd »

fallingknife wrote: post #836
sanderjd wrote: post #725

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"Villain" isn't the word I'd use, but he has been increasingly indulging in gleeful cruelty and childish nonsense, both of which are very off putting. I also admire his car and rocket businesses, but he seems to have gotten sucked deeply into the very online culture war grievance trap in the past few years, to the point that it now seems to be taking up essentially all of his time now. It's really a shame to see.

Gleeful cruelty? Really? That's quite an overstatement for a bit of social media drama.

"Gleeful cruelty" is how his bullying tweets come off to me, yeah. He does the thing where he plays it off like he's just joking, just like every other bully out there, but he's being cruel, and enjoying it.

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Post by fundad »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #659
LarsDu88 wrote: post #237

Remember how George Lucas made Star Wars and became the genius billionaire who could do no wrong. Then he got a divorce and made Howard the Duck (quite possibly the worst movie of all time). I think the same thing is happening here. As a startup founder you have guardrails, spouses, investors. You have Brian De Palma rewriting the opening trailer crawl, you have Marcia Lucas helping the edit, and you have your old pr…

Whoa whoa whoa! Worst movie of all time? I still mutter “Slice salami!” To myself while cutting things.

It was a feature film based on a comic book. A trailblazer…
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