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Without fail, there's no group of people more obnoxious and more politically illiterate, and yet they seem to believe they have all the solutions to politics simply because they're techbros.

I'm talking the descendants of Peter Thiel, I'm talking every programmer who goes on /pol/, or I don't know, /r/anarchy or some shit like that.

As a programmer I have to agree 😬

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[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Pessimistically,
I feel TechBroism is a brand of positivism that will never die, more than one of its brethren is already trying to cast themselves as would-be alchemist promising gold from lead through the arcane uses of AI: "You just need the right prompt."