> P.S. - OpenAI adds former NSA chief to its board

Related HN discussion of the annoucement 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674835

Why do you think this is? Are people worried their jobs will be at stake?

Hacker News is, in my experience, and despite its benefits, susceptible to a belief in pseudoscience. I love the optimism behind the refrain of “what’s next?” But, at the end of the day, I wish the community, myself included, did a better job of acknowledging that this optimism too frequently sacrifices comprehension and understanding for the dopamine released when we contemplate possible futures.

> Never did I expect so many dorks to turn to the dark side like this in my life. :/

I think this is a little overly optimistic about “dorks”, but I will also note the shift in the ratio of dorks to business people.

I’ve recently seen backlash against the term “tech bro”. Bill Burr recently called it out as a bullshit title to separate the bad actors from oneself, but I’ve always held it identifies a class of interest in the tech sector.

University fraternities get large sums of money from alumni and as such are financially motivated to put their pledges in degrees of that result in high paying positions.

In the 70s this was law, the 80s it was finance, 90s it was medicine, 00s it became tech.

6 figure entry level position for someone without any knowledge of an if statement were du jour for this group of people and so they flooded in. Bringing their ideals and sociopathy with them.

Woz is a dork and the brains that built apple, but his narrow interests allowed the business end to make the globally affecting decisions and we are still suffering the consequences.