I don't see how this is a tolerable situation when all of the cash is coming from islamic petrostates.
Apparently he isn’t the one that deals with them (its in the final paragraph).
Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani
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#32I think Elon is right about the idea of mind viruses. He just hasn't taken the premise far enough. All of us are infected by the algorithms around us, MAGA, Woke, MAHA ect. are all "mind viruses". I doesn't matter how smart, compassionate, empathetic, creative or dynamic you are. As soon as you expose yourself to the algorithms you become infected. The more exposure the deeper the infection.
The idea that people are affected by their experiences is hardly novel. You don't need to dress it up as "mind viruses" and claim it is an "infection".
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#33Easy to be comfortable disagreeing when it doesn't affect you personally what happens with the positions you espouse.
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#34For all of the worship these guys get for being mega geniuses, they sure say a lot of ignorant shit.
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#35This dude really says some things without even analyzing how degressive they are; really tone deaf, pompous and disrespectful to large swaths of people. I mean, at least post this from your anime pfp alt account.
Some people have never heard “no” and it shows.
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#36Maybe don’t let assholes openly spout racist bigoted rhetoric.
They should have tossed him. They didn’t and now the way get to deal with the fallout of tacitly endorsing his positions.
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#37There's three names in that title, and none of them are explained in the tiny slice of an article that's free. Am I expected to just know who these random people are?
Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia who has become an outspoken right-wing commentator online and large GOP donor. His recent comments that the Sequoia COO quit over was about the democrat front runner candidate for NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
This article has some details: https://www.businessinsider.com/shaun-maguire-sequoia-vc-gop...
> Following Trump's felony conviction last year, Maguire announced he'd back Trump in the 2024 election and would write his campaign a $300,000 check. In total, he donated about $800,000 to Republican causes last year, according to data from Open Secrets. Once Trump was elected, Maguire aided in the transition by interviewing candidates for positions in the defense department, The New York Times reported.
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#38> Maguire, an outspoken and high-profile investor who is close to Elon Musk, wrote on X in July that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.” Balbale complained to other senior partners at the firm, who declined to take action against Maguire, arguing he…
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#39If I had to classify the current era we're in, it'd be the "Age of the Edgelords".
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#40I think Elon is right about the idea of mind viruses. He just hasn't taken the premise far enough. All of us are infected by the algorithms around us, MAGA, Woke, MAHA ect. are all "mind viruses". I doesn't matter how smart, compassionate, empathetic, creative or dynamic you are. As soon as you expose yourself to the algorithms you become infected. The more exposure the deeper the infection.
The idea that people are affected by their experiences is hardly novel. You don't need to dress it up as "mind viruses" and claim it is an "infection".
Yeah, sounds like parent is talking about "opinions" and "beliefs", something humans famously can't agree with one another about for as long as we've existed.
The tricky part is figuring out how to still collaborate and live side by side with people you vehemently disagree with.