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The other dimension to it is he's spent most of his adult life being praised by Very Serious People for the rationality of his penchant for taking massive gambl
by notahacker 3y ago
The other dimension to it is he's spent most of his adult life being praised by Very Serious People for the rationality of his penchant for taking massive gambles and claiming they're just applied utilitarianism[1], why not take a few more...
[1]this is the most infamous example https://archive.ph/Yg64e https://archive.ph/Yg64e
- jacquesm 3y agoThat page does not load for me.
- notahacker 3y agoNot sure why, works fine on both my machines. It's the hagiography removed from Sequoia's website which amongst other things praises him not doing any due diligence on his business deals as understanding the prisoners' dilemma, paints him dropping out of his first job without a plan as ingenious "risk neutrality" rather than what loads of disaffected graduates with a safety net do and sees his decision to play League of Legends through his investment meeting with them as a sign of how awesome he is rather than a warning sign about his priorities and/or executive function...
- blamazon 3y agoIt may be DNS, the operator of the archive.today sites intentionally blocks certain DNS providers: https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/ https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/
- jacquesm 3y agoAh, ok, interesting, I did not know that.