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> All that said, this person was likely more suited to a platform of hot-takes, rather than deep thinking.

As, of course, is jwz.

Smart people who we admire for their thinking and writing on technology can be embarrassingly shallow when it comes to other domains, and (as I’ve reluctantly learned over the decades) can be safely ignored when they opine obviously way out of their depth.

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> As, of course, is jwz.

I have their RSS feed just for the updates to the xscreensaver and the occasional interesting topic, but mostly ignore. I see some drama happening there quite frequently and I really don't want anything to do with it.

> Smart people who we admire for their thinking and writing on technology can be embarrassingly shallow when it comes to other domains [..]

That rings very true. I always got nervous when I saw one of the heavy weights such as Stephen Hawking weighing in on topics such as AI or alien biology. Or Richard Dawkins commenting on politics.

I think people generally are interested in how they may apply their minds in other topics, and when they give the crowd what they want, they fall short.