Truly, it is impossible to get a billionaire to understand something when his mega-yacht depends on his not understanding it.

This motivated reasoning ripples through all of Silicon Valley's top brass, producing what @anildash calls "#VCQAnon," the collection of conspiratorial, debunked and absurd beliefs embraced by powerful people who hold the digital lives of billions of us in their quivering grasp:

https://www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/vc-qanon/

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One keen observer of the mind-palaces that tech leaders trap themselves in is @anildash, who describes the conspiratorial, far-right turn of the most powerful men (almost all men!) in #SiliconValley in a piece called "'#VCQanon' and the radicalization of the tech tycoons":

https://www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/vc-qanon/

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