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Comment by codygman | Hacker News Reader

I've said as much there in the comments already, but this gist doesn't have many useful insights.

The problem is that highly valuing "first-principles thinking" is wrongfully attributed to arrogance and seen as "ignoring truths from the 'dirty' mainstream".

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After scanning through the linked gist, it looks like the author was trying to discuss your objections in good faith but you kept on trying to provoke him.

That kind of behavior is borderline toxic, and I hope it's not representative of the Haskell community.

I was trying to reason with the author in good faith as well. Part of that means questioning large claims with no evidence.

If you're going to accuse me of being toxic, please be explicit with quotes and what specifically was toxic rather than unconstructive allegations.

Well, you argued back-and-forth on the gist for a few hours, wrote a comment on HN disparaging the gist, and then begin arguing with another random, unaffiliated commenter about your behavior in the gist. That's far from constructive and, I think, rather close to toxic.

Are you saying it's toxic that I argued with multiple people in multiple places to verify whether their claims were true or false?

Let me rephrase what you wrote: "Someone had a long conversation on the Internet about a topic that good hackers would find interesting, came to a conclusion, and then shared that conclusion with others."

That's not just not toxic, but is the whole purpose of this website.

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