How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley

Re:How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley by uniqueid on Monday March 08, 2021 @12:31PM (#26388613)

I found parts of this amusing, but it does feel like bad form of me to post an article with a paragraph trashing Paul Graham on a site PG started. Apologies to him if he's browsing HN today :)

Edit: I reread the post and noticed the author also has a go at Sam Altman, so apologies there, too.

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Re:How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley by reducesuffering on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:25PM (#26403705)

Should you have no critique of Zuckerberg on Facebook or Instagram; Dorsey on Twitter?

Doesn't make sense to me.

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Re:How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley by uniqueid on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:51AM (#26409232)

Before I deleted my FB and Twitter accounts, I posted many scathing critiques! This felt a bit different for a couple reasons.

First, the article entertained me, but makes a couple points I vehemently disagree with. Most notably: as keen as the author is to dismiss some VC's intellectual pretensions, it's those pretensions that stop HN from turning into a garbage dump of bigotry, misinformation and viral marketing fluff. The pretensions I have more of an issue with are the a16z variety: the brain-dead 'I am very bad ass' church-of-the-hustle attitudes.

Second, HN has fewer posts and does not silo users. That's different than Facebook, where there was no chance Zuckerberg would read anything I ever posted. If I criticize someone more-or-less to their face I want it to be criticism I truly stand behind.

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Re:How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley by Apocryphon on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:32PM (#26391900)

He's a fan of heresy, after all.

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