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Comment by Geste | Hacker News Reader

So, you liked nothing about the post ? What would you salvage from it ?

Well, let's start with the second sentence:

> Your path, your character, your life, should be the most unlikely, the most unexpected, the least predictable version you can make.

Now, I ask you, is that really what I want from my kid's school bus driver?

Huh. The post in effect is about a choice of one's career, about what one offers to the world. Of course the execution of the chosen career must remain flawless.

One must develop one's own unique offering. Don't let the world trap you in its box.

I came across a bus driver today that told me he owned a juice bar on the side, and invited me to visit. I thought this was most unexpected. This didn't make him a bad driver. His driving was fine. The point is that even a bus driver can live up to the author's ideal.

Sadly people are fulfilling the very probable nerd stereotype of aggressively misunderstanding philosophy and then trashing on it. I'm not sure how someone could even come to the conclusion that living an improbable life = swerving into oncoming traffic, but here we are.

"Luke Rhinehart"'s The Dice Man isn't the stagecoach of life I should be riding?

Damn.

> Sadly people are fulfilling the very probable nerd stereotype of aggressively misunderstanding philosophy and then trashing on it.

Sadly people are fulfilling the very probable dilettante stereotype of acting like pretentious crap actually has meaning.

> I'm not sure how someone could even come to the conclusion that living an improbable life = swerving into oncoming traffic, but here we are.

Did you actually read the fucking sentence and think about it?

It doesn't have to be swerving into traffic. It could just be not showing up on time to get the kids to school. It could be sexual assault of a minor.

In general, a good life involves showing up for people and supporting them. If you do that well, people come to expect it, and then...

Well, guess what? In a huge, important (to others!) part of your life, you become rather predictable.

Are you majorly autistic? Or have you just generically struggled to interpret the basic context in which authors say what they say?

> Did you actually read the fucking sentence and think about it?

Yes, I thought about it instead of just taking it literally and equating it with acting randomly or without purpose.

And yet, here you are, predictably defending your interpretation.

Why?

Go forth and do something improbable!

> The post in effect is about a choice of one's career...

You do a huge disservice to the author. He mentions much more than that, just in that one sentence.

Again:

> Your path, your character, your life, should be the most unlikely, the most unexpected, the least predictable version you can make.

Why, if you're a nice guy, you should become a serial killer!

> I came across a bus driver today that told me he owned a juice bar on the side, and invited me to visit. I thought this was most unexpected.

You must live a sheltered life. Bus drivers were doing serious side hustles before there was even a name for those.

You need to immediately familiarize yourself with the rules for comments on this site at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html especially:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

And as for your comment:

> you should become a serial killer!

Please not preach violence on this site, whether intended or not.

This is rich. "Assume good faith" and "Please not preach violence" in the same comment, when I was doing nothing of the sort.

No, you or anyone will not receive a good faith exemption when preaching violence as you objectively were via your quoted statement:

> you should become a serial killer!

There are multiple possibilities for why someone might take quotes completely out of context.

The most charitable of those, in terms of evaluation of the capacity of someone to learn to stop doing that, involves bad faith.

Most of the rest involve some sort of cognition or psychological issue.

This comment is the very definition of Irony.

There is never any good faith exemption for violent comments, not here, and not anywhere.

You think it's "most unexpected" that a bus driver got sucked into an MLM?

If a stranger spontaneous brings up they run a "juice shop" and "invites" you to visit, 99 time out of 100 it's a front for an MLM.