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I think this needs a close reading by a historian or something. I'm certainly not qualified to do it but still there are so many lines that even to my layman's
by tech_ken 3y ago
I think this needs a close reading by a historian or something. I'm certainly not qualified to do it but still there are so many lines that even to my layman's understanding seem like just obvious, fortune cookie horseshit (ironic, given how aggressively the author is touting "truth-seeking"). The Nietzsche stuff reads like something a stoner freshman engineer would post on /r/atheism.
> Our enemy is the ivory tower, the know-it-all credentialed expert worldview, indulging in abstract theories, luxury beliefs, social engineering, disconnected from the real world, delusional, unelected, and unaccountable – playing God with everyone else’s lives, with total insulation from the consequences.
Coming from the mouth of Andreeson-Horowitz this is...beyond rich. Didn't they just hand Adam Neumann a massive stack of cash (and to do nothing but extract rent from urban economies, no less)? Their entire milieu does nothing but play god and dick around with abstract theories. How is The Precautionary Principal delusional but cryptocurrency not "a luxury belief"?
This whole post smacks of a god-complex masquerading as a commitment to rationality. Clearly Marc Andreeson knew what he was doing at some point, but if this is representative of the current thought leadership in Big Tech I think we're heading towards some dark years. Victory has defeated us.
- hotnfresh 3y agoBetween the times the piece twists itself up in knots of self-contradiction or is just, purely internally, gibberish, plus the amount of it that’s, as you rightly call out, “fortune cookie horseshit” and is best ignored, it’s a challenge to even reach a point of beginning to address and critique its substance.