Andreessen is a virus ("Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Marc Andreessen") and has a virus' motivations: grow without thinking -- maybe the host dies, maybe it doesn't, but just grow.
Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
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#72Counterpoint -- Yes he's wrong and obviously so. But is some rich dude saying something stupid worthy of platforming? It almost feels to me like acting as though a famous person being gasp wrong about something is implicitly suggesting that this is somehow surprising? We should be surprised and write essays when the smartest people we know say something silly. Just because somebody's bank account has some zeroes in i…
Yes. They need to be platforms and shamed to hell. Otherwise they thrive in shadows like the ghouls they are.
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#73400 years ago black people and women weren’t considered equal to white men.
So congratulations, you are a fool
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#74Is the 1 percenters getting dumber or acting like it? Like 10 years ago, I felt like Andreesen and Elon were thought leaders. Now they sound like idiots. Did I or did they change? Did I grow up and they changed to a younger audience and what I used to enjoy was just a different kind of stupid?
You realized they were always shitheels. Musk was a complete visible fraud long before 2016.
Indeed, he always seems like an obnoxious media attention whore to me long before he got into politics.
I tend to have a negative view of celebrities who did cameos for the Simpsons far past its peak lol
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
They changed. You wouldn’t believe it but those most impacted by the mental rot that social media can induce - are the ultra wealthy.
I doubt that. The only thing social media removed was scruples and shame. People were ashamed to say such dumb things and now they think they have some kind of deeper knowledge. Their thinking didn’t change.
I think they also suddenly had to deal with a bunch of people being mean to them, and telling them they were wrong, which drove them a little mad.
Sort of an oppositional defiant thing, filtered through immense wealth and power
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#76For me too much deep introspection does lead to depression. I am fully capable of diving into my navel, and it turns out to be a deep dark pit. Doing anything productive, or even just fun, is a cure for me. I often read the news, feel miserable about the state of the world, and then go outside and do yardwork, get my body in motion, and very soon feel much better about the world and my place in it. For me introspecti…
I think this conclusion in itself is more introspection than reading the news. After all most news events are external and whether you read about them or not doesn't make any difference. Its really more the opposite of introspection.
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#77Technologists used to be smart, now they just have money.
Venture capitalists have never been smart and have always had money
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've taken the position that anything the ultra-wealthy say is likely wrong, and every decision they take will negatively affect society, unless and until its corroborated by an unbiased source with expertise in the subject matter.
This is an SNL skit from 1996 that has always been my framing for how many-million/billionaires think, Tiny Camels through Giant Needles: https://www.reddit.com/r/RebelChristianity/comments/113xslu/...
The inflection on his voice…
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#79Imagine taking advice from VC instead of their money.
Well, isn't this the whole point of YC?
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#80“It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worth hearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business.”
- Teddy Roosevelt