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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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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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I think "making up a guy to get mad at" is already an idiom as is.
You're not wrong!
Drilling down, it'd be nice if there needs to be a way to capture the level of intentionality involved.
Ben Shapiro starts out with malice afore thought when makes up a guy, because he has a propaganda quota to hit. That's a strawman.
A rationalist's guy is an emergent phenomenon that arises from their cultic milieu (sometimes). They run with that misaprehention because of "smartest boy syndrome" and then you can't tell em anything.