alt Hacker NewsI suppose the kind of character traits that enable becoming super-rich probably also lend themselves to giving such talks.
Most sane people would stop working by the time they become rich, not super rich. To become a billionaire, your brain must be wired differently, and perhaps with unwavering conviction that you are right, righter than anyone else and the world owes you its attention.
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kelseyfrog • today at 3:56 PM
My pet theory is that billionaire weirdness and AI psychosis have the same root cause: talk too much to sychophants and the human mind starts to go off the rails.
Without a reality check, the natural feedback loop that tells us we're wrong sometimes, the human mind starts to diverge into madness.
This quote is partially apt to your idea:
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -GB Shaw
I don't fully agree with the quotation from Shaw, but there's some truth to it. And I suspect a common quality of the billionaire class is ruthless unreasonableness -- and considerable luck.