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So what has he built?

"Garry's List" for dark money (this is an established political term, look it up!) donations. Basically you can donate anonymously to a SuperPac.

Software? I'm not aware of anything.

Psychosis?

Markdown files

a bubble.

A site where he complains about rich people being charitable, among other things.

Looks like this is getting downvoted, but it is absolutely true.

Garry Tan is fully aligned with Elon Musk in going after MacKenzie Scott's charitable giving, making spurious arguments that she's doing it in the wrong way when they are all just running cover for the fact that she's one of the few at that level of wealth being charitable at all these days.

Silly woman, she should give her money away the right way, which I guess is by attempting to buy political power.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042593 - HN discussion (5 comments) on that particular rant of his. And it looks like you were one of the few people to comment on it, so really this is for other people who are missing the context of our comments.

https://garryslist.org/posts/mackenzie-scott-s-26-billion-su... - The rant itself.

I can’t remember with enough clarity if it was obvious when this was published but holy hell was this obviously AI written

> This isn’t generosity. It’s negligence at scale.

Is when I realized I was wasting my time reading the article

Getting an LLM to _write a blog_ for you is really bizarre behaviour. I mean, really, why bother?

I'm sure one of his agents could answer that question if you posed it to them.

Also goes to the same weird SV church that started because of Thiel and where he held the Greta is the anti Christ talk.

The funniest thing about thiel and his antichrist obsession is how well he fits the description of antichrist

1920s, Henry Ford: "I want to build automobiles any man can afford, even the workmen in one of my factories."

2020s, techbros: "Here's why it's a huge problem for non-billionaires to have things."

Um. Here's what Henry Ford was actually doing in the 1920s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dearborn_Independent

The robber barons weren't better or more moral. They were afraid of a powerful US government that brought them to heel under popular public sentiment.

That's all it takes to have good things.

> So what has he built?

"Garry, this is a text file".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6nem-F8AG8

Larry, I'm on DuckTales.

Finally, the perfect yes-man, the thing execs and VCs always wanted.

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