I cannot imagine writing something this embarrassing and deeming it worthy of public consumption.

There is a very, very weird phenomenon of people that consider themselves to be very clever inexplicably carrying water for others that also consider themselves to be very clever, regardless of the material conditions or facts at hand. It’s like Scott Aaronson is applying to be in a club that Mr Fried is the bouncer for.

I know that it garners fewer clicks, but wouldn’t it be more honest to just say “Damn. I wish I had been rewarded with billions of dollars for my shitty behavior, and further (since I’m imagining myself in this scenario) it all worked out in such a way that I was deified for this grift.”