blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove is representative of the absolute worst thing about tech culture - the idea that technological progress is more important than anything else
If tolerating homophobia is the price paid for a slightly faster ad platform, shit yeah tech is all over letting you talk about how much you hate gay people
Want to be invited to parties no matter how much you talk about making this country white again? Write a new functional programming language.
The funny thing about reality? It's always there. It'll wait. We'll find out about it sometime. We don't need to tolerate bigotry in order to find it faster.
Next up on @ycombinator hot takes: ethics boards hold back scientific progress, so maybe we should get rid of them
