pg's essay about philosophy is simply embarrassing.
He should just stick to essays about startups and lisp instead of pontificating on something he clearly has very little understanding of.
He should just stick to essays about startups and lisp instead of pontificating on something he clearly has very little understanding of.
[1] Although, you are talking about PG (who is the founder of this forum), so you might get downvoted just for the hell of it ;)
I'd like to add that while this may be true, it's not a good thing. Any act of silencing someone in an act of fanboy revenge is an embarrassment to this forum. It's a shame the downvote threshold doesn't rid of this type of behavior, and I doubt raising it would help. I'm tired of seeing grayed out controversial opinions.
And with anyone who is admired such as PG you would typically try to be very careful (almost diplomatic) in how and what you said.
Statement was:
"He should just stick to essays about startups and lisp instead of pontificating on something he clearly has very little understanding of."
or, suggested re-write (for someone who feels this way):
"PG's essays about startups and lisp are great|good|wonderful however in my opinion, and based on my particular experience, I can't tell that he has any particular expertise in Philosophy".
While I agree that forks like this post sometimes make interesting discussions (and here I am discussing it) I'm not sure what the exact authority is of the OP (per the about page) "I’m a wannabe philosophy professor turned wannabe tech entrepreneur" is anyway, so that if I don't know much about philosophy to begin with why should I even pollute my brain by reading it. Not to mention that I don't know to what degree I can even trust the comments here about this subject at all.
Ironically, that said, separately, and since a theme of the post is "words" [1] interesting how it has been concluded that "seem to be relatively new to HN" when as evidence all you have is the fact that the account was created 22 days ago and a review of the previous comments.
[1] I just changed what I said from "you have concluded" to "how it has been concluded" so as not to appear to be attacking you. Once again, ironically.