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This guy is complete trash. Does excessive coding rip holes into people's brains?
No, because until the dot-com era when "tech bros" first became a thing, a lot of the computing pioneers were leftist/hippie counterculture types. Think MIT AI Lab (RMS), The Homebrew Computer Club (Woz, Captain Crunch), Germany's Chaos Computer Club, etc.
Further reading:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/1960s-counterculture-created-silicon-valley/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said
Explain the likes of Curtis Yarvin then. There's definitely some techno fascists that go back further than dot-com
He said "a lot", he didn't say "all"
I explained myself badly and I think that comment reads as more argumentative than I intended.
I meant to say that the countercultural world of the early internet created a lot of the deeply problematic culture of the current moment as well as having a bunch of right-on goodness. The seeds of the bad shit were also there in amongst everything that was good.
Can't argue with that
Not Yarvin though, he's too young for that. He is exactly a product of (what came after) the dot-com era. That's when people's brains started to melt.
You're entirely right. For some reason I thought he'd been around a lot longer
There seems to be a notable amount of FOSS coders of the old guard (90s til 00s) that are like that.
I long frequented a place called linuxquestions.org. You wouldn't believe how right-wing to libertarian most of the people there were. Still are I guess.
Some gained status (Ruby on Rails was a big thing 1 or 2 decades back) and started spouting things because they knew people were listening.
Some people in such communities recognize that there's something off here, and they have this excuse ready: all coders/nerds are basically on the spectrum (they don't phrase it like this though) and don't know how to phrase things politely, they just blurt it out.
As if that makes things better when you think like that guy.