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Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Post by a456463 »

leetvibecoder wrote: post #10

> Marc Andreessen was right about web browsers. > But he has since been wrong about a great many things. This is true for almost all of the tech bros / influencers / CEOs. Being right once and getting rich does not make them smarter or better than anyone. Unfortunately our society doesn‘t view it that way - hence here we are, stuck with the Elons and Thiels of the world. And it‘s hurting us yet they’re on a pedestal

Exactly. They just happened to be there at the start of the wave and bam they're geniuses. No they're just greedy a-holes and leeches!

Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Post by John23832 »

We all know he’s wrong. The problem isn’t that he is wrong, it’s that we have elevated the wealthy into a status where they can be wrong, have no correction, and make decisions whole clothe which negatively affect the rest of us. All while being insulated from their negative world view.

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Post by daveguy »

Apparently Andreessen is an ignorant fool. Seems par for the course with these tech oligarch asshats.

Only at least since the ancient Greeks has introspection been relevant (and even the Renaissance was well established 400 years ago in the 1600s):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_unexamined_life_is_not_wor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself

Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Post by a456463 »

John23832 wrote: post #12

We all know he’s wrong. The problem isn’t that he is wrong, it’s that we have elevated the wealthy into a status where they can be wrong, have no correction, and make decisions whole clothe which negatively affect the rest of us. All while being insulated from their negative world view.

Yes. I mean calling them out and people take personal offense as if they are receiving handouts from them or they are that rich. They don't give a damn about anyone or anything for that matter

Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Post by willio58 »

> Marc Andreessen was right about web browsers.

>But he has since been wrong about a great many things.

Basically summarizes any billionaire. Society still seems to drink the kool-aid of billionaires. People think a guy has a billion dollars because he’s a genius. In all cases it was some small amount of intelligence with a whole lot of luck.

My hope is in the decades to come we wake up to the fact these guys are lucky wealth-hoarders and they get too much time on every podcast you can think of.

Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Post by an0malous »

He’s right in that business success is largely correlated with sociopathy, it helps you focus on the goal of maximizing your own wealth without worrying about the messy details of how other human beings are affected.

Going back four hundred years, it would have never occurred to anyone that humans shouldn’t be slaves or that the environment will be irrecoverably destroyed if everyone pillages it for their own business needs.

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Post by arthurjj »

>The only access anyone has to those questions is through something like introspection: either their own, or someone else’s honest reports of their experience, or the accumulated testimony of literature and philosophy...

I'm broadly sympathetic to the point in this article but it's trying to slip in literature and philosophy with honest first hand reports of introspection is underhanded. There's no reason to expect them to be any less guilty of motivated reasoning than Marc Andreesen

Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Post by general_reveal »

The problem with certain intellectual pursuits is that it becomes its own little sub culture with its own little sub culture celebrities.

You see, High School never ended. Things can still get lame in the “real world”. The “geeks” need to shut up and go back to the geek table and be more humble. The whole lot of us have demonstrated limited ability on how to be decent.

To quote Rick James:

”They should have never given you developers money. Fuck your Ping Pong table, fuck. Your. Ping. Pong. Table!”

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