DHH's opinion on Peterson
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> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
If so, that doesn't seem a fair comparison. He's a supposed intellectual, and highly influential. They are just dipsticks with twitter accounts, about half of whom will have two-digit IQs just by the law of large numbers, possibly with dozens of followers.
If "detractors" are themselves influential public intellectuals, it would be a stronger statement. But it would also require more support than goes into a tweet.
And this is the article that he is mentioning https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/03/the-intellectual...
So some of the "successful" people in our industry never read anything other than technical books. And if they have read some, they never understood anything.