Very Important People
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Very Important People
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#2What is the point of this article? It rings incredibly false and superficial to me. How is this about tech? The headspace this person is in seems like pure misery.
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#3What is the point of this article? It rings incredibly false and superficial to me. How is this about tech? The headspace this person is in seems like pure misery.
It's social commentary about class, fame, and fate – all things very relevant to hackers and news.
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#4I find this kind of attitude insufferable to be honest. This is really hard to read.
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#5Excellent read
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#6I find this kind of attitude insufferable to be honest. This is really hard to read.
“I've seen almost zero famous people in my life.“
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#7Envy is worth talking about. It seems to pull a lot of people, like one of the strings in string theory. They want to be envied so they live an exhibitionist life, or they were surpassed by someone they thought was their equal and now they hate the gap. Is it possible people who feel envy then decide to be more exhibitionist, so they can be envied in the future?
I wonder what value envy provided to evolution? Did it motivate primates to do more than they are already doing? Is it a by-product of social status behaviors?
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#8I felt the potato throwing. The primate in me agrees. The potato makes us all the same again.
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#9"Like most unfamous people, I feel compelled to meet as many famous people as I can."
Is this how people are, or how LLMs think people are like?
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#10Envy is worth talking about. It seems to pull a lot of people, like one of the strings in string theory. They want to be envied so they live an exhibitionist life, or they were surpassed by someone they thought was their equal and now they hate the gap. Is it possible people who feel envy then decide to be more exhibitionist, so they can be envied in the future? I wonder what value envy provided to evolution? Did it…
> by-product of social status behaviors
I think that's the one. There's entire rituals to show social status. For example, weddings. That's all it is for.