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472 Silicon Valley's Ideas Mocked Over Penchant for Favoring Young Entrepreneurs with 'Agency'

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/01/2026 00:34 EDT

Silicon Valley's Ideas Mocked Over Penchant for Favoring Young Entrepreneurs with 'Agency'

In a 9,000-word expose, a writer for Harper's visited San Francisco's young entrepreneurs in September to mockingly profile "tech's new generation and the end of thinking."
There's Cluely founder Roy Lee. ("His grand contribution to the world was a piece of software that told people what to do.") And the Rationalist movement's Scott Alexander, who "would probably have a very easy time starting a suicide cult..."

Alexander's relationship with the AI industry is a strange one. "In theory, we think they're p

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