The replies to this tweet do a pretty good job of making Sam’s point.https://twitter.com/sama/status/941355543213498368 …
I read the entire post multiple times. His argument boiled down to asking people to tone down their reactions to what they perceive to be bigoted attacks because an environment in which people react strongly en masse enables the notion of "heresy", ...
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I think “bigoted attacks” was one of many categories he mentions. If you ruled those out, would u then see merit?
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I don't think that Silicon Valley is actually a culture where it's heretical to "doing something the government had already decided was too hard" And I don't think the bigotry points are particularly separable from his broader point, which is...
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"So if you want a culture that innovates, you can’t have a culture where you allow the concept of heresy—if you allow the concept at all, it tends to spread" He is explicitly talking about bigotry because he is advocating a zero tolerance policy.
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Are you asking if he wrote a completely different article with completely different arguments and examples, would I agree with it? Dunno! But I don't think disagreeing with his *actual article* is making his point.
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And the notion of "heresy" is hard to control. He claims that ideas like Bitcoin or SpaceX wouldn't get good support in SV today because they are connected to "heretical" ideas like "we should try to work on things the government decided were too hard"
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But in reality, there is plenty of support for this alleged heresy, and plenty of people whose innovation we're not seeing because of a notion that we should discourage people experiencing bigotry from speaking out too aggressively.
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Silicon Valley's significant pushback against ideas like "women are biologically inferior as programmers" is not "creating a culture of heresy" around ideas like SpaceX.
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It's just not a good analysis. And it's pretty silly to claim that the above pushback is "an example of the problem"
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