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I'm broadly not that supportive of these kind of character assessments or psychological evaluations from afar. They're at best salacious clickbait. I despise Tr
by camgunz 3y ago
I'm broadly not that supportive of these kind of character assessments or psychological evaluations from afar. They're at best salacious clickbait. I despise Trump and I was even uncomfortable with all the same things around him.
But, I think we might need to start reckoning with the fact that the people who amass a lot of power in our society almost never do it because of their moral fortitude, but rather because they have less than most. If we actually think you should have to be a bona fide good person to be president or run OpenAI, we should probably figure out wtf that means, how we would assess that, and how we'd develop that in potential leaders. Thinkpieces and tweets about it after the fact are frankly pathetic. Maybe come out swinging a little earlier.
- janc_ 3y agoOne problem there is that if you come out swinging before most people see it too, you will be accused of being jealous, not qualified, etc. And you will be fired instead...
- camgunz 3y agoFair, I mostly mean the media here though. Like we're gonna spend decades lauding Ray Dalio and only when he retires are we suddenly gonna pop the hood and check what's going on in his hedge fund? It's just the meekest clickbait I can imagine and nobody's being the slightest bit bold here.