An interesting long profile of Mark Zuckerberg. “Mark is the fucking Terminator. He’s actually not an asshole, which is interesting. He’s not a miserable fuck. But his source of advantage is he’s never happy. He just doesn’t fucking stop.”
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Every comment I've seen on social about this link is some variation on "screw fascist pedo Mark Fuckerberg" and "I don't want to waste a single second on this person" and "I obviously only read the headline and the short quote you shared and lemme tell you my opinion on this profile". (Precisely why I did not open comments here, btw.) And I get it. But this is a really good, insightful profile which is more about this moment in history and how power works than it is about a single guy. And it, IMO, is not at all a positive profile either.
interesting and nuanced article. Liked this passage: “AI is not, in fact, God. Instead, it does math and solves a limited set of problems humans face, and is otherwise simply useful and cool. Anthropic, and to a lesser extent OpenAI, have trouble ever accepting this fact. Zuckerberg does not.”
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