Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection • Hacker News Board

Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Post by MrSkelter » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 12:26 PM UTC

piker wrote: post #284

j2kun wrote: post #227

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Elon was always problematic. His increasing social media use removed the natural filters that prevented people from seeing it.

I'm not defending Musk, but "problematic" used in this type of context is one of those words that says more about the speaker than it does the subject.

You are just moving the goalposts to criticize a position without being required to provide a reason. You could pick any phrase and mark it as beneath intelligent discourse. You are choosing “problematic” because you don’t like the implication.

Musk is easy to laugh at and to criticize. Problematic encompasses his lying, pettiness, racism, sexual weirdness, ego and fraud as well as anything. Regardless of the proportions of specific traits, as a whole, he’s a problematic individual. That’s perfectly cromulent.

Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Post by bcjdjsndon » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

leptons wrote: post #462

asdff wrote: post #432

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I think wisdom is pretty unevenly learned and its not a guarantee 32 or 42 year olds or 82 year olds have it either. See our well aged POTUS. Either way you don't need wisdom to start working. So many of the "best" minds in various fields started working in that field at like 16, maybe dropped out of college and dug right in. Their initial intellect or specific circumstances allowed them to skip the normal path but r…

It seems like you think you have it all figured out, but you don't. >So many of the "best" minds in various fields started working in that field at like 16, Name them. Also, child prodigies exist but that doesn't mean the rest of us are dummies. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a child prodigy or someone like that as you suggest that is "at the top of their field" that doesn't think someone else is better than they…

> It seems like you think you have it all figured out, but you don't.

This is a better summation of you than him

Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Post by bwhiting2356 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

skdhfkdjfhsjk wrote: post #489

bwhiting2356 wrote: post #233

I was reading Martin Luther's wiki article the other day: "Johann von Staupitz, his superior and frustrated confessor, concluded that Luther needed more work to distract him from excessive introspection and ordered him to pursue an academic career" [1] basically he was a moody college student [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

Translation: the confessor was frustrated because Mr. Luther would not accept the B.S. he was being told to believe, and he thought a nice rigorous period of brainwashing in academia (controlled also by the Church) was the solution to the young man's "problem." History of course came to a different conclusion. Who controls Wikipedia, and why do they want people to think ill about Martin Luther?

Maybe my comment came off wrong. This wiki article made me like him a lot more, it was relatable.