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this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Words fail me. A few CFAR people had contacts in Czechia and Germany but most of these people can't dare to explore exotic subcultures in their own city, and race pseudoscience is central to their culture.
I think there's an inbuilt unexamined assumption that they are automatically part of a cosmopolitan elite, thanks to their paths through early life, and they are now transcending beyond that. Standing on the shoulders of David Brooks, perhaps
At best, I think "cosmopolitan" means "wants to stay at a Hilton on three continents, and gets off to Japanese and American porn."
Someone diagnosed the Post-Rationalists as bring resentful that their educations and class backgrounds did not bring them the wealth, power, and status they felt they deserved.