Not all of them are marketing. Some of them expose his belief system. After “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” it’s very hard for me to take him seriously again.
Oh wow, I forgot about that! What a wild read. It was such a mess. I loved it. Something about a famous rich person putting that much effort into something so amateurish and clumsy, while apparently being so confident , in an eager-college-freshman sort of way… I dunno, call it endearing, maybe. I mean it’s either that or it’s horrifying. I choose to pretend it’s endearing because there’s too much horrifying already.
It's horrifying because it's not an isolated wild rich man seizure, it's the same shit that Musk, Dorsey et al believe. The whole effective altruism movement is infected with this bizarre space feudalism.