[HN Gopher] The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
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       The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
        
       Author : speckx
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2026-04-01 20:21 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | uduni wrote:
       | Ok yes that quote from the suno CEO is rediculous, billions of
       | people make music for the simple joy of it.
       | 
       | But that dynamic is way less true in other areas. People
       | generally write code to build useful products, not for fun. As a
       | software engineer who uses AI to write 100% of my code these
       | days, I can tell you that LLMs are not replacing my reasoning at
       | all. They are replacing the menial parts of the job (memorizing
       | syntax, reading documentation, finding relevant examples...
       | Essentially "plumbing"). This leaves much MORE room for
       | creativity and reasoning in software development.
       | 
       | Every dev I know is experiencing this... The job requires way
       | more deep thinking and architectural creativity now. Devs who
       | lean on LLMs to think for them are getting fired, as AI slop is
       | so easy to spot.
        
       | selfunaware9 wrote:
       | Good choice of a day to publish this meme article
        
       | trinsic2 wrote:
       | I looked up anti-intellectualism and here is the definition:
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       | >Anti-intellectualism is a profound skepticism or hostility
       | toward science, higher education, and critical thought, often
       | viewing intellectuals as detached elites . Driven by populist
       | politics, religious dogma, and economic anxiety, it manifests as
       | rejection of evidence and scientific consensus. It undermines
       | democratic decision-making by prioritizing emotional narratives
       | over expert analysis
       | 
       | I would say that there is another possibility to this. Experts
       | and Expert opinions are susceptible to the same problem of social
       | media echo-chambers[0].
       | 
       | Where new ideas and thought tend to be rejected because experts
       | tend to rely too strongly in positions established over the
       | course of a carrier.
       | 
       | So the concept of anti-intellectualism is not solely based on
       | emotional responses. But also based on this concept of creating
       | too much absolute certainty about a situation that doesn't always
       | exist. People have a tendency to reject scientific basis of some
       | information because of this echo-chamber as this dilemma tends to
       | ignore other factors that are not well known. Also scientific
       | pursuits have the possibility of being game by bad actors.
       | 
       | [0]: https://truenorthoutreach.com/the-science-of-echo-
       | chambers-h...
        
       | sQL_inject wrote:
       | This is the same author who co-founded the pinnacle of
       | intellectual journalism, Gawker.
       | 
       | The name alone tells you everything you need to know about her.
        
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