[treetalker]

this whole thing <gestures broadly at Trump and those three election cycles and two terms> plus MAGA's "paint the bullseye around the arrow" have certainly been a clear demonstration of human psychology, I'll give the author that much

[Zigurd]

What's fascinating in the context of HN is that Trump is partly a product of the industry luminaries we talk about and occasionally see contributions from on this forum. They would get off too lightly if we write it down to cynical opportunism. Some of them are clearly taken in by pseudo intellectuals like Moldbug, crank philosophies like Accellerationism, and long-debunked pseudoscience like eugenics.

The tech industry needs to get better at identifying these pathologies early enough, and acting to prevent damage.