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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 6 Nov 2014

    It's puzzling how big Silicon Valley's peanut gallery is. Why do so many people who will never start startups care so much about them?

    12:18 PM - 6 Nov 2014
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      2. David Petersen‏ @typesfaster 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Zuck made it cool.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @typesfaster

        @dcpetersen23 I bet that is a big part of it actually. Things changed when The Social Network came out.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Isegoria‏ @Isegoria 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg You know people talk about Hollywood, right? Sports? Government?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @Isegoria

        @Isegoria The first two, and arguably the third as well, are *designed* for audiences.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Isegoria‏ @Isegoria 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg But people like talking about the behind-the-scenes elements even more than the public show.

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      2. Maria Chong‏ @mariachong 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Any different than Star Wars fandom? Freaks, geeks, uberchild, robots, chosen ones, dark lords, Yoda, self vs other: timeless story.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @mariachong

        @mariachong Yes. The purpose of Star Wars was to engage an audience. SV only does so incidentally.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Maria Chong‏ @mariachong 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Plus the hoi polloi has always served as conscience of elite/leading edge. Not always right, but public opinion is a vital ballast.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Anil Dash‏Verified account @anildash 7 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg @abrams most people care about the forces that shape & transform culture, society, the economy, media & politics. Which startups do.

        6 replies 4 retweets 41 likes
      3. Jonathan Abrams‏Verified account @abrams 7 Nov 2014
        Replying to @anildash

        @anildash @paulg thank god no one in Hollywood, Wall St, or Washington DC has to see their work criticized on the Internet by outsiders!

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      4. Anil Dash‏Verified account @anildash 7 Nov 2014
        Replying to @abrams

        @abrams @paulg why do so many who will never be politicians care what politicians do? :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Jonathan Abrams‏Verified account @abrams 7 Nov 2014
        Replying to @anildash

        @anildash @paulg well, on rare occasions I've heard they sometimes pass legislation

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Gabriel Roth‏Verified account @gabrielroth 6 Nov 2014
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        Author of hundreds of thousands of words on how startups will change the world now thinks they’re only relevant to ppl who start them @paulg

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      2. 🅲🅷🆁🅸🆂 🅼🅴🆂🆂🅸🅽🅰︎‏Verified account @chrismessina 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg @davemorin it's a sports league for people who don't like physical sports.

        3 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
      3. ⦿ Alexander‏ @Alexhorre 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @chrismessina

        @chrismessina @paulg @davemorin fantasy startup league? Can someone start this app?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Nathan Boo 👻shaw‏Verified account @nbashaw 6 Nov 2014
        Replying to @Alexhorre

        @alexhorre @chrismessina @paulg @davemorin check out @buster's http://valleyball.co/ 

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      1. Tucker Max‏Verified account @TuckerMax 6 Nov 2014
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        @paulg thats how media makes money--creating news/commentary appealing to human desire to consume social information and status signal

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      2. nina eleanor alter‏ @ninavizz 8 Nov 2014
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg We (SV) need to get over our own lust of heady innovation (Larry/Sergey) and start making things that make everybody's lives easier.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Sam Altman‏Verified account @sama 8 Nov 2014
        Replying to @ninavizz

        @ninavizz @paulg Google makes everyone's lives significantly easier!

        5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. nina eleanor alter‏ @ninavizz 8 Nov 2014
        Replying to @sama

        @sama @paulg Absolutly: Google, Facebook, Twitter, & others. Google $$$ on self-driving consumer cars in face of DARPA failures = frivolous.

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      5. Sam Altman‏Verified account @sama 8 Nov 2014
        Replying to @ninavizz

        @ninavizz @paulg wildly disagree. self driving cars will eventually happen and be a massive win for everyone.

        12 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      6. nina eleanor alter‏ @ninavizz 8 Nov 2014
        Replying to @sama

        @sama @paulg You two see the world as possibilitarians. Most of the world only sees their own hardships or opportunities w/in a year or two.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. Mark Pettersson‏ @konop 9 Nov 2014
        Replying to @ninavizz

        @ninavizz @sama @paulg the definition of short sighted right here

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. nina eleanor alter‏ @ninavizz 9 Nov 2014
        Replying to @konop

        @konop @sama @paulg You're earning some super negative SV stereotypes the rest of us have to shoulder, w/ that attitude & yr haste to judge.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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