This essay (and the one it links to) provided tremendous insight to me as a HN reader and should not have been marked dead, even if it’s about PG. None of us are beyond reproach, even the founder of this site/company.
The issue is that a polemic against PG gets downvoted and removed, but Taleb’s polemic against Nate Silver doesn’t. It certainly makes it look like the subject of a polemic is more important than the tone or content of the article being posted for very specific people.
We sometimes turn off flags when an article contains significant new information and can support a substantive discussion in the community, but this was not that.
HN hosts tons of discussion about PG, much of it negative, so that's not the issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25325716 was just yesterday.
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I'm big on permissive speech, but if anything were going to be modded away by its users, this should be.