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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Hmm, a xitter link, I guess I'll take a moment to open that in a private tab in case it's passingly amusing...
OK, you have my attention now.
Useful context: this is a followup to this post:
it is just straight up fucked that there’s a hacker house scene where you’ll be so heavily indoctrinated (with sexual coercion and forced drug use to boot (please can the capitalists leave acid the fuck alone? also, please can the capitalists just leave?)) that a fucking Silicon Valley startup accelerator seems like a beacon of sanity
like, as someone who was indoctrinated into a bunch of this hacker culture bullshit as a kid (and a bunch of other cult shit from my upbringing before that), I get a fucking gross feeling inside imaging the type of grooming it takes to get someone to want to join up with a just hacker culture and AI research 24/7, abandon your family and come here house, and then stay in that fucking environment with all the monstrous shit going on because you’ve given up everything else. that shit brings me back in a bad way.
I want to tell myself that it's probably a tiny scene of 10s to 100s, that it's just vestigial cult mindset that what she went through is the real SV VC scene, and most of it is just the more pedestrian techbro buzzword pptx deck tedium ...but even then, it's still incredibly tragic for everyone who went through and is going through that manipulation and abuse.
Very grim that she feels the need to couch her damning report with "some, I assume, are good people" for a paragraph. I guess that's one of her survival strategies.
Good thing that none of this mad-science bullshit is in danger of working, because I don't think that the spicy autocorrect leadership cadre would hesitate to hurt people if they could build something that's actually impressive.
Thanks! I thought the multiple journos sniffing around was very interesting.
some of these guys get in touch with me from time to time, apparently i have a rep as a sneerer (I am delighted)
(i generally don't have a lot specific to add - I'm not that up on the rationalist gossip - except that it's just as stupid as it looks and frequently stupider, don't feel you have to mentally construct a more sensible version if they don't themselves)