The replies to this tweet do a pretty good job of making Sam’s point.https://twitter.com/sama/status/941355543213498368 …
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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