Paul Graham's pattern of impugning the motives of anyone who disagrees with him is really starting to piss me off.
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Lastly I would say to any tech person trying to change the world—we already changed it quite a bit. Maybe take your foot off the gas and look around first. The tech startups that came up in the 1990s and 2000s had really excellent intentions and pure motives. It's not enough.
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A more laudable goal for tech would be to change the world *back*. Three good places to start: cars without touchscreens, light bulbs that hit full brightness when you turn them on, and TV where you can flip the channels at lightning speed.
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And maybe no for-profit on ramp to white supremacy and the hatred of women for young adults. Four things!
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Graham had one piece of good timing, one good idea and one good blog post. Because he's tech royalty people think he knows what he's talking about the rest of the time.
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worse though is that /he/ thinks he knows what he's talking about
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I don't see this as weird - journalists *should* be cynical about tech's lofty aspirations, politicians' promises, big oil's pledges to behave better, etc.. At least he's not Thiel?
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Don't you mean skeptical?
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My impression is that many (maybe most?) tech employees who have options avoid tech startups that talk too much about "changing the world"
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working at a place that was literally started as a 'hot or not' for the founders college is insult enough; don't make us lie about it.
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