I recently read an article by Nicholas Nassim Taleb: https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577 https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellect

I recently read an article by Nicholas Nassim Taleb: https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577 https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e... Here is an excellent description of the Big Tech employee today: "but their main skill is capacity to pass exams written by people like them". Yes, Facebook is like a cult. You can verify this by asking any Facebook employee their view on privacy. You will usually get a ramble which will look exactly like the other passage from that essay: "that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts.... who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for." And I will add 6) why privacy does not matter. My point is: I think this person is lying. Now, if only Facebook open sourced its entire codebase, I would be willing to take back my view. See the problem here? It will be back to square one. "Trust us. We know we are right. And we must be right because we are successful.."