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jalapenos | 5 days ago

Altman strikes me as a dude who came from a special tier of toxic upbringing.

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noduerme|5 days ago

I wouldn't say he's much different or worse than certain BBS sysadmins I knew in the early 90s... just that I'd never want those guys to be endowed with enough money and hardware to wreak their vision on the world

PacificSpecific|5 days ago

That's the problem though. One of those types did get that type of power.

aa-jv|5 days ago

He is literally a manifestation of the phenomenon described in this book:

https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.469826

"The Authoritarian Personality"

tl;dr - the roots of the authoritarian personality grow fertile in the desire to be free of 'the filth of others'. Altman seems like he'd go crazy if he didn't keep his machine spectacularly clean ..

accidentallfact|5 days ago

He was talking about education. I'm pretty sure about it.

amelius|5 days ago

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ginko|5 days ago

He's a college dropout that never done any research. He's a salesman.