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Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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wodenokoto 4d 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?

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lijok 4d 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.

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croes 4d 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.

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monknomo 4d 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

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estebank

After one becomes wealthy, social media easily becomes the only place where anyone says no to them. When everyone who surrounds you tells you "you're absolutely right, let me get that for you", you atrophy the muscle that let's you course correct when you're making a mistake, and when someone disagrees with you it feels that much stronger.

Wealth is not the only way this can happen, you see it with notoriety and power who have gotten used to " being right" (Dawkins comes to mind), and now this experience is being "democratised" by LLMs.