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It's interesting that you start your post by demythifying these people only to close it by rebuilding the myth again. It's like we can't accept they are just li
by stackbutterflow 4y ago
It's interesting that you start your post by demythifying these people only to close it by rebuilding the myth again. It's like we can't accept they are just like us posting on HN.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoIt's not building the myth but explaining the clear difference. I'm not as conscientious or as laser focused as Elon Musk so my chances of getting there are lower.
- BiteCode_dev 4y agoThere is nothing mythical as having qualities that others don't have, and any context or system have a local maximum, which optimize for a certain kind of outcome. My qualities would have me dead 200 years ago, but make me earn money and social status in 2022. It's not that I'm amazing, it's just the current context is very favorable to those qualities. So it's just a lot of luck, and being fit for certains things that happen to be advantagious in your environnement. The myth is that the process is just and fair, according to some people moral standard. The universe doesn't care.