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The eventual flagging of this post makes me so sad for our civilization, of which this website is a HUGE part. I believe there was a very interesting conversat
by consumer451 3mo ago
The eventual flagging of this post makes me so sad for our civilization, of which this website is a HUGE part.
I believe there was a very interesting conversation happening here.
- senordevnyc 3mo ago[flagged]
- consumer451 3mo agoI appreciate the reply. However, there is a lot more than blah blah happening here, in the hundreds of comments. Here was my best effort, which I believe is entirely fair: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091321 I believe that many people understood the subtext of TFA, and contributed to a genuinely interesting thread, given our increasingly low-trust political and business environment.
- unknownfuture 2mo agoThing about offhand comments from random guys like Lutke is a) they're born of the cultural pool in which he's swimming, which is made up of many other very influential rich guys, and b) they have the power and influence to actually make their ideas happen. One only need look at Peter Thiel's private rich club for assholes and the ideas they're circulating or the absurdities espoused by the effective altruists that birthed guys like Sam Bankman Fried to realize that it's worth paying attention to wild, off the cuff comments by folks like Lutke. His ideas might be more prevalent than you realize.
- senordevnyc 2mo agoThe fact that you think Thiel’s dumb little conference is some kind of conspiracy theory shadow group tells me all I need to know about what you know about any of this.
- unknownfuture 2mo agoRead more carefully. I didn't say any of that. "Rich people hang out together and influence each other" isn't, in fact, a conspiracy, it's demonstrable fact.