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It's the natural conclusion of their beliefs in themselves as ubermensch - that the rest of us are untermensch. I'm sure many are nice on the surface, but they
by laidoffamazon 4y ago
It's the natural conclusion of their beliefs in themselves as ubermensch - that the rest of us are untermensch. I'm sure many are nice on the surface, but they fundamentally don't think of us as equals - there's a good reason why they didn't go to their state schools after all.
You can see it in people like Dan Gross who named his venture fund after the eugenics research fund Pioneer Fund and called other people "NPCs" in a lecture that got big on HN a few years ago.
- entropy47 4y agoI can't think of any other reason somebody might name an innovation focused business "Pioneer". Must be a nod to eugenics. There are certainly narcissists at Stanford (and any other prestigious institution) but this desperate need to write off thousands of intelligent people based on some kind of imagined persecution is pretty weird to me.
- laidoffamazon 4y ago1) It's real persecution 2) I think the last thing they need is even more constant adoration for their intelligence, which they definitely believe is genetically derived 3) I think he literally should have googled "Pioneer Fund" before naming it that because it's literally a disambiguation on Wikipedia [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund
- entropy47 4y agoI don't think I'm going to be able to change your mind, but chatting to some more Stanford grads might. Not everybody is the stereotype. I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience. Just for the record, I studied at a very unprestigious journalism school in Australia. But I work with many Stanford grads and in a company with it's fair share of assholes, they have all been lovely.