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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can't imagine signing that - unless I was being paid a lot of money

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

keep in mind that the company heavily pre-filters for believers. that means that you have a whole set of other decision-influence things going on too, including not thinking much about this

(and then probably also the general SFBA vibe of getting people before they have any outside experiences, and know what is/is not sane)

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oh that reminds me of Anthropic's company values page where they call it "unusually high trust" to believe that their employees work there in "good faith"

Unusually high trustOur company is an unusually high trust environment: we assume good faith, disagree kindly, and prioritize honesty. We expect emotional maturity and intellectual openness. At its best, our trust enables us to make better decisions as an organization than any one of us could as individuals.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

.......that's going to be some ratsphere fucking bullshit, isn't it