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I’ve been a C-suite executive, and I’ve worked with executives (incl. CEOs) at public companies.

Not only is there often a thermocline of truth that stops “bad” information going up the chain, CEOs more often than not make decisions based on nothing but their own opinions, and they will more than happily discard any information that doesn’t already fit that opinion, and even if negative things do manage to reach them from the other side of the thermocline, they often discount it or explain it away

Your description is basically of a “spherical CEO in a vacuum”, ie. the ideal and abstract version of how corporations should operate. It has very little to do with reality

Exactly.

People seem to think “if I don’t do X, that means nobody does X”

Are we pretending that lots and lots of people aren’t incredibly horny for AI right now?

She does have a bit of the 'ol Hapsburg Jaw going on

I respect and always will respect people who are ideologically consistent, even and especially when they are personally harmed by their position

Not sure there’s much to admire in pig-headed refusal to face facts

Everything is a conspiracy, except the actual conspiracies

Ah the VnJ.

Aprineh might as well be chanting “down with us!”

A-ha, somebody else knows about Cipolla!

Here’s his full monograph on stupidity https://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/