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Back when I started getting an interest in tech back in middle school I looked up to Bill Gates
In high school I used to think highly of Elon because of all the promises he was making with Tesla, space X, etc
I think it’s safe to say those opinions aged like milk
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Not so much an evil person, but moreso a fool that fell for conservative and techbro propaganda, John Carmack is insanely smart and intelligent bookwise, but i think his social skills are zilch.
Sandy Petersen is another one i really used to enjoy but the amount of times he's scammed people out of crowdfunded boardgames has turned me off from anything that has to do with him.
Thankfully John Romero is a great person (afaik) who overcame his ego, probably after Daikatana failed to sell.
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Bill Cosby
Marilyn manson
Oof. Lot to unpack there.
Somewhat related but I had to stop listening to Lostprophets once I found how shitty the lead singer was.
Not really "heroes" but several pastors / youth leaders from when I was young got caught in sex scandals and embezzling. My childhood bully became a youth paster and got convicted of sex crimes against minors.
would not say "hero", but I did like a lot of Michael Jackson's music when I was younger.
let's not pretend he didn't do anything just because he could settle/pay off everything ...
For me it was the other way around. I was a kid when the only thing he was in the news for was that he had to go to court again. Only later I found out why he even was famous and that he had a lot of good music.
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None of them, really. Mr. Rogers was genuinely as awesome as he seemed. As a young adult, John Von Neumann, Grace Hopper, and Claude Shannon became my heroes. None have anything particularly bad that I've seen.
There are some people whose work I admire whom I don't like, e.g. Harlan Ellison was famously an asshat. But they're not my heroes, and the work is not the creator.
Never had heroes because basically this. Almost all people in a spotlight let you down eventually. Something about being rich makes people into depraved cunts.
Maybe not Dolly Parton. She's been consistently good. Mr Roger's too. But still, not many people on the list.