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What is the "Mini cultural revolution" that he's referring to? What is the assertion here? I'm confused as to the meaning of "Our" here. To what audience does

What is the "Mini cultural revolution" that he's referring to? What is the assertion here? I'm confused as to the meaning of "Our" here. To what audience does this address? It doesn't seem to be HN'ers or YC alumni. As someone who's not a twitter denizen, I honestly have no idea what he's trying to say.

Scarblac 3y ago
I think he's referring to "wokeness".
pythonantelope 3y ago
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bamfly 3y ago
His followup: > The essay I'm currently writing is, among other things, about how to have original ideas. And while it never mentions wokeness explicitly, some of the techniques I describe I might never have considered without the experience of the last 10 years. He means "wokeness" As for the initial post: > Apparently our mini Cultural Revolution may have peaked. It was painful, but I have to admit I learned some interesting things from it. For example, I learned more about independent-mindedness from seeing conventional-mindedness in action every day. Ho ho ho, what a clever way to hurl an insult. Whether he's right or wrong, this is pure shitposting. Which, I mean, it's on Twitter, so that's practically a given, but still. [EDIT] Oh, as for this part of your post: > To what audience does this address? It doesn't seem to be HN'ers or YC alumni. There's a set of people for whom Elon Musk acting erratically, doing stupid shit, and being a total asshole, is just 4D chess because he's such a business genius, and he doesn't really mean any of it, so it's fine (cf Vonnegut's Mother Night)... and also the "woke progressives" are a grave threat and worth spending a lot of time and energy opposing. Some of these are just twitter jerks, but the tech-influencer and owner/entrepreneur/VC crowd is full of folks who think that way (this is not speculation—they say the above in interviews and such all the time, and I personally know one of these sorts, as in, IRL) That's the audience, I guess.
- hindsightbias 3y ago
  Someone ask him to define that word.
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ineedausername 3y ago
I also have no clue. This Twatter way of communication and it's purpose are things i haven't managed to fully comprehend yet. It's disturbing tbh.

Scarblac 3y ago

I think he's referring to "wokeness".

pythonantelope 3y ago

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bamfly 3y ago

His followup: > The essay I'm currently writing is, among other things, about how to have original ideas. And while it never mentions wokeness explicitly, some of the techniques I describe I might never have considered without the experience of the last 10 years. He means "wokeness" As for the initial post: > Apparently our mini Cultural Revolution may have peaked. It was painful, but I have to admit I learned some interesting things from it. For example, I learned more about independent-mindedness from seeing conventional-mindedness in action every day. Ho ho ho, what a clever way to hurl an insult. Whether he's right or wrong, this is pure shitposting. Which, I mean, it's on Twitter, so that's practically a given, but still. [EDIT] Oh, as for this part of your post: > To what audience does this address? It doesn't seem to be HN'ers or YC alumni. There's a set of people for whom Elon Musk acting erratically, doing stupid shit, and being a total asshole, is just 4D chess because he's such a business genius, and he doesn't really mean any of it, so it's fine (cf Vonnegut's Mother Night)... and also the "woke progressives" are a grave threat and worth spending a lot of time and energy opposing. Some of these are just twitter jerks, but the tech-influencer and owner/entrepreneur/VC crowd is full of folks who think that way (this is not speculation—they say the above in interviews and such all the time, and I personally know one of these sorts, as in, IRL) That's the audience, I guess.

hindsightbias 3y ago
Someone ask him to define that word.

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ineedausername 3y ago

I also have no clue. This Twatter way of communication and it's purpose are things i haven't managed to fully comprehend yet. It's disturbing tbh.