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After watching Lex Fridman’s interview with Zuckerberg, I kind of like him. I don’t care what the world thinks of him, from what I saw, he seems like a genuine

After watching Lex Fridman’s interview with Zuckerberg, I kind of like him. I don’t care what the world thinks of him, from what I saw, he seems like a genuine and nice person. I like him. And it makes me question the demonization of him.

chaps 4y ago
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- throwaway237_3_ 4y ago
  How old was he then? Perhaps you were more mature at 19 than he was.
  - chaps 4y ago
    Probably? Considering what he said, it doesn't exactly seem like a high bar to beat.
    - lotsofpulp 4y ago
      I know I will find plenty of stuff like Zuckerberg’s dumb fucks comment in my AIM chat logs from when I was 19. I remember cringing at it within a few years.
      - chaps 4y ago
        Sure, and as any 19 year old -- same. But did either of us build a giant, world-dominating business that was built on top of our immoral, eventually cringey, foundations? Personally no, but maybe you did.
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spaceman_2020 4y ago
You can be the nicest person and still leave behind an awful world. Really hard to argue that Zuck and his companies have had a net positive impact on the world.
- systemvoltage 4y ago
  It's all about perspective. I think, unpopularly but based on objectivity and rationality, that oil companies are great and have done a world a lot of good – literally everything we do today from modern medicine to farming depends on fossil fuels, it has sustained 8 billion people on this planet and saved countless lives. Without it, we would see horror of death like you've never witnessed, millions of people would die. This whole thing is a matter of perspective, like a russian doll illusion. Stare hard enough and it will rotate the other way. You can similarly see social media in two ways. Zuckerberg also gets disproportionate amount of hate compared to other media. Who's the CEO of Tiktok?
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- EarlKing 4y ago
  There is no net positive impact from social networking services, or indeed any other medium powered by advertising where the operators thereof have realized that hatred can be monetized. People have always disagreed with one another and clashed over political views... but only in the last 15 years have people been so polarized, and I think we can directly attribute it to conditioning as a direct result of participation on networks that incentivize people to consume hatred for clicks.
  - t-writescode 4y ago
    Families around the world and across continents have been able to keep in touch due to social networks. For all the deserved hate, some good has come.
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psyc 4y ago
I realized 15 years ago that close to 100% of people who talk about him, don’t have the first inkling who they’re talking about, when they could easily have at least a better idea. One of the biggest problems big brain people face is that it sounds more clever and worldly to assign complicated self serving ulterior motives to basically everyone. If they have incalculably higher influence than oneself, one can hardly refrain.

chaps 4y ago

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throwaway237_3_ 4y ago
How old was he then? Perhaps you were more mature at 19 than he was.
- chaps 4y ago
  Probably? Considering what he said, it doesn't exactly seem like a high bar to beat.
  - lotsofpulp 4y ago
    I know I will find plenty of stuff like Zuckerberg’s dumb fucks comment in my AIM chat logs from when I was 19. I remember cringing at it within a few years.
    - chaps 4y ago
      Sure, and as any 19 year old -- same. But did either of us build a giant, world-dominating business that was built on top of our immoral, eventually cringey, foundations? Personally no, but maybe you did.
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spaceman_2020 4y ago

You can be the nicest person and still leave behind an awful world. Really hard to argue that Zuck and his companies have had a net positive impact on the world.

systemvoltage 4y ago
It's all about perspective. I think, unpopularly but based on objectivity and rationality, that oil companies are great and have done a world a lot of good – literally everything we do today from modern medicine to farming depends on fossil fuels, it has sustained 8 billion people on this planet and saved countless lives. Without it, we would see horror of death like you've never witnessed, millions of people would die. This whole thing is a matter of perspective, like a russian doll illusion. Stare hard enough and it will rotate the other way. You can similarly see social media in two ways. Zuckerberg also gets disproportionate amount of hate compared to other media. Who's the CEO of Tiktok?
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EarlKing 4y ago
There is no net positive impact from social networking services, or indeed any other medium powered by advertising where the operators thereof have realized that hatred can be monetized. People have always disagreed with one another and clashed over political views... but only in the last 15 years have people been so polarized, and I think we can directly attribute it to conditioning as a direct result of participation on networks that incentivize people to consume hatred for clicks.
- t-writescode 4y ago
  Families around the world and across continents have been able to keep in touch due to social networks. For all the deserved hate, some good has come.
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devwastaken 4y ago

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- metadat 4y ago
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- steve76 4y ago
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psyc 4y ago

I realized 15 years ago that close to 100% of people who talk about him, don’t have the first inkling who they’re talking about, when they could easily have at least a better idea. One of the biggest problems big brain people face is that it sounds more clever and worldly to assign complicated self serving ulterior motives to basically everyone. If they have incalculably higher influence than oneself, one can hardly refrain.