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EQmWgw87pwyesterday at 4:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

So someone is evil because they answer questions by thinking through them? There are no questions in the universe that can’t be stopped and pondered over. In fact, it’s dangerous to even suggest that, that’s the exact mechanism that propaganda runs on.


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pfrazeyesterday at 4:21 PM

Ah yes, the real danger to the world isn’t a powerful man feeling ambivalent about our survival. The real danger is society using that moment as propaganda.

This regarding Thiel, a man who most recently tried to make a “Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist” meme stick.

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Spivakyesterday at 4:24 PM

Actually evil, no. Forever changed by their enormous wealth which messes you up mentally in a lots of fun unique ways, changes the nature of every relationship you'll have post wealth, and feeds into your ego and all your latent neurosis further and further alienating you from and believing yourself above your fellow man, yes.

Evil is just a shorthand.

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