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I struggle with this because while I am with you in tone and spirit, the fact of the matter is that pmarca is incredibly intelligent. Putting his wildly success

I struggle with this because while I am with you in tone and spirit, the fact of the matter is that pmarca is incredibly intelligent. Putting his wildly successful investment firm aside, you know that he created the first widely used graphical web browser and co-founded Mozilla, right? Instead, I propose that he's been breathing different oxygen for so long that he's long since started believing his own legend. Frankly, I just don't believe that he has anyone in his life who would serve as a grounding influence, and I find this really sad. Anyhow, I jumped into the thread because I find calling someone demonstrably brilliant an "uneducated, delusional moron" might feel good but it distracts from the real discussion.

meheleventyone 3y ago
You can be brilliant in some aspects and a delusional moron in others. The latter often happens when the brilliant feel their brilliance extends beyond their education.
- peteforde 3y ago
  I didn't finish high school, and by your logic I shouldn't be able to do much more than flip burgers. I can believe that pmarca is wrong about many things, but that doesn't make him a moron. pmarca is clearly not a moron. If you have a huge problem with his opinions, writing him off as a moron is intellectually lazy and it won't advance your position.
  - meheleventyone 3y ago
    You need to read what I wrote again because I didn’t call him a moron or say that if you are uneducated you can’t be brilliant.
    - peteforde 3y ago
      Not only did I read what you wrote again, I re-read the comment that you replied to... the one that clearly unambiguously calls pmarca a delusional moron. In other words, we were both replying to a comment that did indeed call him a moron.
      - meheleventyone 3y ago
        So long as we’re clear that I didn’t.
- kortilla 3y ago
  No you can’t, moron is a term for intelligence, not knowledge.
  - meheleventyone 3y ago
    Well if we want to language lawyer things it actually says delusional moron which could imply an intelligent person under delusions acts moronically. But in reality we're discussing this using colloquial terms so I don't think your complaint carries much water.
  - thisgoesnowhere 3y ago
    Have you ever heard about Bobby Fischer's opinions on literally anything other than chess? Is he not intelligent? As the other poster said it's not relevant how smart someone is in one arena because they can have dogshit opinions in others. https://www.chess.com/blog/Rodgy/the-genius-craze-of-bobby-fischer https://www.chess.com/blog/Rodgy/the-genius-craze-of-bobby-f...

meheleventyone 3y ago

You can be brilliant in some aspects and a delusional moron in others. The latter often happens when the brilliant feel their brilliance extends beyond their education.

peteforde 3y ago
I didn't finish high school, and by your logic I shouldn't be able to do much more than flip burgers. I can believe that pmarca is wrong about many things, but that doesn't make him a moron. pmarca is clearly not a moron. If you have a huge problem with his opinions, writing him off as a moron is intellectually lazy and it won't advance your position.
- meheleventyone 3y ago
  You need to read what I wrote again because I didn’t call him a moron or say that if you are uneducated you can’t be brilliant.
  - peteforde 3y ago
    Not only did I read what you wrote again, I re-read the comment that you replied to... the one that clearly unambiguously calls pmarca a delusional moron. In other words, we were both replying to a comment that did indeed call him a moron.
    - meheleventyone 3y ago
      So long as we’re clear that I didn’t.
kortilla 3y ago
No you can’t, moron is a term for intelligence, not knowledge.
- meheleventyone 3y ago
  Well if we want to language lawyer things it actually says delusional moron which could imply an intelligent person under delusions acts moronically. But in reality we're discussing this using colloquial terms so I don't think your complaint carries much water.
- thisgoesnowhere 3y ago
  Have you ever heard about Bobby Fischer's opinions on literally anything other than chess? Is he not intelligent? As the other poster said it's not relevant how smart someone is in one arena because they can have dogshit opinions in others. https://www.chess.com/blog/Rodgy/the-genius-craze-of-bobby-fischer https://www.chess.com/blog/Rodgy/the-genius-craze-of-bobby-f...