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by antonymoose 76 days ago
Devil’s Advocate: I would expect a dumb teen to not understand the history and blast radius of social media like a former teen that grew up on that trash did.
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The author explained that he had watched (and quoted) The Social Network, in which Zuckerberg gets in academic trouble for doing exactly this.
Devil’s devil’s advocate.

He had several rounds of warnings before things escalated (not counting the local bully).

Huh? This is not a "dumb teen" smoking weed in the parking lot, this is a student at IIT Delhi, which has a sub 1% acceptance rate and is one of the most elite schools in the world, that is smart enough to make a social media app.
> this is a student at IIT Delhi, which has a sub 1% acceptance rate and is one of the most elite schools in the world

Elite schools are full of dumb people. Being good at math doesn't automatically give you emotional intelligence.

> that is smart enough to make a social media app

What, like it's hard? I could've sworn making a Twitter clone was in plenty of "Programming for Dummies" books during the 2010s - and they didn't even have access to LLMs!

making the website is not the hard part. Making all the right design decisions, understanding people and virality is the hard part