Both the Koch brothers and Robert Mercer are engineers by training. Peter Thiel is a philosopher by training. Alex Karl (Palantir) is a Frankfurt School social theorist. It astounds me that people still think bridging the two-cultures gap in either direction is a panacea
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STEM sociopaths going the other way discover that real power vacuums exist and holy shit there are big, bold moves that can be engineered and holy shit, huge hack possibilities are obscured by innocent types who think the limit of action is talking and winning word games
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I wish I knew where to find tech people who just give power away. It seems like there’s certain limits where you really have to look and act like them and tell them what they already want to hear socially & politically.
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Doesn’t work that way. You have to take it from where it’s lying neglected in blind spots labeled “boring shit”. Ask what they have filed under “boring shit” and invariably they’ll have a few keys to empires lying around they’ll be grateful to get rid of. If they’re any good.
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Any real world example of this
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Inoculate. Inoculate. Inoculate. You are doing god's work here vgr.
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