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To be clear I don't think Mark Zuckerberg is sociopathic, and I don't think it's productive or fair to speculate about him like this. My comment about his techn
by dsacco 9y ago
To be clear I don't think Mark Zuckerberg is sociopathic, and I don't think it's productive or fair to speculate about him like this. My comment about his technical and business capabilities was intended in good faith, not as a springboard to rehash a discussion of "psychopaths in suits."
I also think we (as in Hacker News) need to consider the extent to which useful discussion about Facebook's legitimate failings is getting drowned out by the noise of hyperbole and outrage.
- loceng 9y agoI don't think anyone should have assumed that from your reply - I wasn't stating he is a psychopath either, simply wanted to tie into the idea that there are a lot of successful people in powerful positions ("psychopaths in suits") - they're intelligent yet because they don't factor in the people element, they make decisions that increase profits at the expense of others. I haven't seen much hyperbole and outrage re: Facebook on here. The scale of Facebook and the issue, how Trump and others got elected into power because of what Cambridge Analytica did -- the gravity (hmm, how grave it is..) and scale, how serious this situation is, would be fairly hard to exaggerate - it should warrant strong anger as well, if looking at the holistic impact, even though individual users may not realize the malice through purposeful ignorance.