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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, July 3, 2023

Tech Bros Suck

 The New Yorker has an excellent piece on why the Titan submersible was going to kill someone eventually. The hubris of the OceansGate founder is just tragic - as hubris is. The larger ethos of Tech Bros culture - "move fast, break shit" - is going to screw us over. Maybe it will be mass dislocations caused by AI, but Titan was simply a dramatic manifestation of a flawed world view.

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