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Paper funded by one VC publishes glowing writeup on another VC, talking about how everyone else is just getting it wrong and we all need to get into.. effective

Paper funded by one VC publishes glowing writeup on another VC, talking about how everyone else is just getting it wrong and we all need to get into.. effective accelerationism. (What is it about tech and the word effective?) We promise, say VC's, that if you just get rid of one more $PERSON_GARRY_TAN_DOESNT_LIKE, everything will magically get better, despite no fruit coming from that tree so far. I, the millionaire tech investor, am the real scrappy working class person, not like those supervisors, I really care about you. Also go SFPD.

ilikehurdles 3y ago
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- femiagbabiaka 3y ago
  I wish it was snark. It's actually just the truth.
  - ilikehurdles 3y ago
    Oh, this is not snark? > I, the millionaire tech investor, am the real scrappy working class person, not like those supervisors, I really care about you. Also go SFPD. That’s not snark? Ok in that case I 100% agree with you. And thank you for your investments into our community. Fully support SFPD. Fund the police. And yes, a tech investor in SF is without a hint of a doubt a harder working, more valuable person than those supervisors. As are a lot of other people. For a second, your comment sounded like the meaningless drivel from the twitter-born progressive activist class that has inundated the politics of west coast cities. And all of us living in urban centers across these states have become completely tired of it. It was interesting in 2015. It’s toxic in 2023.
    - femiagbabiaka 3y ago
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dkarl 3y ago
> (What is it about tech and the word effective?) I'm with you on the silliness of putting "effective" into all sorts of places where it should already be implicit. But I do like the awareness among engineers and other practical people that any idea can be executed badly, many flawed ideas can be executed well, many good ideas resist successful execution for a long time, and many good-seeming ideas resist successful execution indefinitely. It's an everyday reality for some people, but to others it's a bizarre, suspicious-sounding line of reasoning, most likely invented to avoid doing the <all caps> obviously right thing </all caps>.
- femiagbabiaka 3y ago
  I hadn't thought about it in this way, you're right. It provides a visual/mental break from the orthodoxy of $THING.

ilikehurdles 3y ago

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femiagbabiaka 3y ago
I wish it was snark. It's actually just the truth.
- ilikehurdles 3y ago
  Oh, this is not snark? > I, the millionaire tech investor, am the real scrappy working class person, not like those supervisors, I really care about you. Also go SFPD. That’s not snark? Ok in that case I 100% agree with you. And thank you for your investments into our community. Fully support SFPD. Fund the police. And yes, a tech investor in SF is without a hint of a doubt a harder working, more valuable person than those supervisors. As are a lot of other people. For a second, your comment sounded like the meaningless drivel from the twitter-born progressive activist class that has inundated the politics of west coast cities. And all of us living in urban centers across these states have become completely tired of it. It was interesting in 2015. It’s toxic in 2023.
  - femiagbabiaka 3y ago
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    - mrguyorama 3y ago
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dkarl 3y ago

> (What is it about tech and the word effective?) I'm with you on the silliness of putting "effective" into all sorts of places where it should already be implicit. But I do like the awareness among engineers and other practical people that any idea can be executed badly, many flawed ideas can be executed well, many good ideas resist successful execution for a long time, and many good-seeming ideas resist successful execution indefinitely. It's an everyday reality for some people, but to others it's a bizarre, suspicious-sounding line of reasoning, most likely invented to avoid doing the <all caps> obviously right thing </all caps>.

femiagbabiaka 3y ago
I hadn't thought about it in this way, you're right. It provides a visual/mental break from the orthodoxy of $THING.