A conspiratorial, passive-aggressive fool in the YC comments is not making any claims, just saying that this might be a protection racket.
Mildly interesting that the author runs a media relations company in SF. On the one hand, I am sympathetic to the general perspective of the original article.
On the other hand, that the same person is writing “hit pieces” and running a media relations company bears a certain resemblance to protection rackets of yore
He really has been. His rants on the new podcast “Better Offline” are worth a listen.
thank you. bookmarked.
“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen.
10/10, no notes
I read it the same way, but he is quite pretentiousness.
I thought that litter was dead? (supposed to say ~~bitter~~ nitter but I'm keeping it.
I came here to write that, after listening to lo-fi Yudkowski, that I want to destroy my speakers lest they ever do that again.
In addition to being a wonderful article, as a bonus I learned the phrase l'esprit d'escalier (and various other forms from wikipedia) and found out that Mr. Andreesen has a small version of the snoopy in a blender sculpture in his yard, which is just amazing.
I have only ever seen his electric vehicle reviews and didn't know he did gadgets, but finally clicked this YouTube recommendation. He is so complimentary of the good stuff, like he's trying to be as fair as possible.
Was his review of the Fisker Ocean similarly unethical? Silly.
Oh, this guy Bryan seems like a real prize.
Existing toys for men are dead, limp, flaccid, gay .....
... we're going to take non-reproductive sex with human women off the table as a commodity. It's gone. Can't trade money for it. Can't trade a meal for it..."
Every scientist I know is always going on and on about how the Overton Window is about to shift on their field of study. This is how serious work gets done, by measuring public opinion.
The Vatican could start a side hustle marketing vanity websites to Virginia tourism.