I think an extension of this is that a remarkable portion of people in SV have no interest in research. They don't go "I want to solve problem X, I'm going to d

I think an extension of this is that a remarkable portion of people in SV have no interest in research. They don't go "I want to solve problem X, I'm going to do some research into what already exists in that area" they go "I'm going to solve problem X from first principles", and then they slowly and painfully discover all the things that everyone else already knew. This is just pseudo-philosophy. You would've thought that network states, being very obviously juxtaposed to nation states would have an idea of what a nation state is. But it's pretty obvious he doesn't even understand the concept he's opposing - he confuses a nation state for a country... because it's never occured to him that he needs to actually understand the words he's using.