Not to put too fine a point on it, but if my head were shaped that way, I wouldn't want to look inside it either.
Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
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Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
#62Certainly not the earliest example and can be interpreted in many ways but one of my favorite ancient examples of “introspection” is the phrase “Know Thyself” inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
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#63Counterpoint -- 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…
These people have profoundly inflated egos, platforming them if only for the express purpose of mocking them mercilessly in front of the entire world is absolutely worth it.
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#64> Host David Senra, apparently delighted, congratulated Andreessen on developing what he called a "zero-introspection mindset."
It's easy to have a zero-introspection mindset if the consequences of having zero introspection are absorbed by the many zeroes on Andreessen's bank account.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is that we have made the latter condition an alias for the former. Redefining competence and intelligence as "ability to make money" has done untold damage to American society.
I have a personal belief that this is a result of the "can-do" attitude that pervades not only American society currently; but virtually all of American history. A small group of colonies managed to win a war against what was considered at one point the globe's strongest empire. Throughout the history-narrative of America there is a prevailing sense that the underdog can always overcome their circumstances and win th…
Well, yes and no. A can do attitude is needed to imagine taking over fighting a global British empire. All around the world people needed to muster up that courage. That said, equating the outcome of that with smartness was bound to happen. That said, they leadership got co-opted by money outcomes is where the downfall happened, IMO
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#66It's nearly the same concept of move fast and break things... what happened to this forum.
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#67Is 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?
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.
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#68Is 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?
These people are almost unimaginably wealthy to the point where they're effectively unchallenged if they're not directly challenging the state (and even then they win quite a few rounds). "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
#69His statements about this were purely politics, and nothing more. He himself does not believe this. It's political revisionism.
I agree he could be doing political revisionism. But I fail to grasp, why?
Re: Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
#70Counterpoint -- 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…
These people are insanely powerful forces in the modern world. Of course we should talk about them (and usually how
Wrong, shortsighted, and self-serving they are).