Venkatesh Rao

.@jamesmcn Not asking for a defense or justification. I'm asking about the cultural production of SV itself. It's a factual question.

Making it damn near impossible to live here while doing real experiments in living.

I am not asking the question for the reasons you think I am. What SV enables elsewhere is a different question from what SV *is*

I voted all pablum although all is overstatement. It's mostly pablum.

the "problem" is that people view their apps as art

not enough app/web devs are engaging their emotions and imaginations

but I believe many would have said the same of the guilds in 15th Century Venice

more like a fast food production table: routinely sterilized but some culture can grow in the corners where the scraps fall