surprisetalk4d ago

Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-introspection/

Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Show threadwodenokoto4d ago

Is the 1 percenters getting dumber or acting like it?

Like 10 years ago, I felt like Andreesen and Elon were thought leaders. Now they sound like idiots.

Did I or did they change?

Did I grow up and they changed to a younger audience and what I used to enjoy was just a different kind of stupid?

Show threadlijok4d ago
They changed. You wouldn’t believe it but those most impacted by the mental rot that social media can induce - are the ultra wealthy.
Show threadcroes4d ago

I doubt that. The only thing social media removed was scruples and shame.
People were ashamed to say such dumb things and now they think they have some kind of deeper knowledge.

Their thinking didn’t change.

Show threadmonknomo4d ago

I think they also suddenly had to deal with a bunch of people being mean to them, and telling them they were wrong, which drove them a little mad.

Sort of an oppositional defiant thing, filtered through immense wealth and power

Show threadsecos
This. I remember many a time pmarca getting so upset and just blocking everyone who disagreed with him on Twitter. It was the weirdest thing.
Apr 3 at 3:29pmWeb
Show threadestebank3d ago

Blocking people that annoy him on Twitter is the only humanizing thing about him. Deciding that someone has annoyed you enough on that platform that you don't care to ever hear from them ever again is the only thing that made that platform usable when you have any minimal audience.

"I've known you for all of 10 seconds and enjoyed not a single one of them" followed by blocking is good, actually. That doesn't make you any more correct or wrong, of course.