The great irony is that both groups are fighting over who has less power.
Paradoxically, the group who proves they have less power actually has more power, since they gain moral authority in the eyes of the masses.
Core to both of their stories is that they are the underdogs.
Paradoxically, the group who proves they have less power actually has more power, since they gain moral authority in the eyes of the masses.
Core to both of their stories is that they are the underdogs.
In the eyes of technologists, this was a bully getting his comeuppance. After years of asymmetric negativity & harassment under the auspice of “journalism” (I dox, you leak, a journalist investigates), getting CEOs fired, finally tide is changing.
In the eyes of journalists, this was yet another tech bro being a bully and subverting the free press, and more so the continuation of a dangerous trend that started w/ Peter Thiel at Gawker.
It’s interesting how divergent perceptions are:
Technologists see themselves as the building the technologies saving the world—After all, it’s time to build!
Journalists see themselves as watchdogs holding tech companies accountable for negative externalities of their creations
Technologists see themselves as the building the technologies saving the world—After all, it’s time to build!
Journalists see themselves as watchdogs holding tech companies accountable for negative externalities of their creations
Journalists see technologists as far more powerful: millionaires who can control & manipulate customer behavior at their will without impunity.
In their view this is just them trying to avoid accountability for their creations and scape goat them.
In their view this is just them trying to avoid accountability for their creations and scape goat them.
Technologists see journalists as more powerful in that they are effectively police issuing social sanctions without accountability (who watches the watchers?)
And very influential with all seeing gov't, whom they don’t investigate (gov't, not president)
And very influential with all seeing gov't, whom they don’t investigate (gov't, not president)
Paraphrasing glibly: China has a state-controlled press, but the U.S. has a press-controlled state, in the sense that politicians pander to voters, & voters are swayed by the press, logic goes.
Post social media, that monopoly has eroded, paving the way for citizen journalists.
Post social media, that monopoly has eroded, paving the way for citizen journalists.
Some people pit the barriers as old money vs new money, but it may be old status vs new status:
Who should society revere more?
Those who speak truth to power or those who use their powers to discover truth & make new things?
What do I think? Both but:
a16z.com/2020/04/18/its…
Who should society revere more?
Those who speak truth to power or those who use their powers to discover truth & make new things?
What do I think? Both but:
a16z.com/2020/04/18/its…
We should move on.
It's too easy to criticize without building, and we should protect against those natural instincts—to blame, to envy, to scapegoat, & do nothing but make it harder for the ppl who are making progress to do so
It's too easy to criticize without building, and we should protect against those natural instincts—to blame, to envy, to scapegoat, & do nothing but make it harder for the ppl who are making progress to do so
