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- Trying to keep track of this amazing back and forth Twitter thread between a novelist and the guy who was temporary CEO at Open AI for a hot second. It all started when CEO dude starts pontificating about redistribution of wealth...
- Replying to @shekfuNovelist guy is not having it. No you're not going to backtrack, what you said needs to be not just rejected but broken and set on fire and launched into space, which is what the novelist's reply does:Emmett, Emmett, Emmett. I'm not "accusing you of socialism". I'm pointing out that you just articulated the single most Bolshevik idea ever suggested since an unemployed German intellectual, living off das kapital gains, wrote a book demanding that all investors should be
- Replying to @shekfuSo then novelist guy comes in to kind of try to set things straightHow is this man being selected as the CEO of OpenAI, however briefly, when he is still groping in the dark, struggling to understand even the most basic of concepts behind his own civilization? Has it never occurred to him to wonder why hunter-gatherer societies don't have a
- Replying to @shekfuThe novelist guy comes in and warns about thinking that bad ideas can't come from smart, thoughtful dudesSmart people disagree ON societal design. Wise people disagree WITH societal design. Below, Crow defends Shear's idea by saying that he is a "smart, thoughtful dude". If you defend an idea by saying its author is smart and thoughtful, you reveal your underlying assumption of
- Replying to @shekfuSo CEO guy starts justifying by getting kind of communist
- Are you a Silicon Valley super-magnate with a billion-dollar fortune, or appreciable fraction thereof? Were you born into the investor class, with red-carpet access to Ivy League universities, and plenty of family and social circle seed money to build your business once you
- Replying to @shekfuThen this chick pops up who is also an insane wordsmith apparently and asks good questions, warranting further explication by the novelist and also he keeps bringing the hammer down on CEO guy who has long sinse blocked him.The problem isn't Emmett in particular. It's the entire culture he comes from. Autism adjacent techie nerds who managed to make millions or billions off a website without ever seeing Middle America or what's happening there are confused. They start to move in elite circles,
- Replying to @shekfuThen CEO guy starts feeling the heat and lashes out and then blocks novelist guy. Says you're accusing me of Socialism! A hit dog will bark.
