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Are you talking about HN or Quora? What's "the bubble"? > This would jive with his above narrative, but many other stories could explain as well. Are you say
by forloop 10y ago
Are you talking about HN or Quora?
What's "the bubble"?
> This would jive with his above narrative, but many other stories could explain as well.
Are you saying you don't assign a high probability to your story being correct?
- mindslight 10y agoHN. By bubble, I mean the memetic assumptions that any culture takes for granted. They generally only get questioned when some event happens that causes an individual to doubt a prevailing narrative. Usually, that individual then seems crazy to everybody who is comfortable leaving said narrative unquestioned. I definitely saw insightful comments from him, so I'm not not going to speak up. I was merely hedging my assessment because it's impossible to discern justified from unjustified paranoia [0], especially merely observing via a forum. [0] I hate when this word is used as a pejorative, but I don't intend it as such. Much paranoia is justified.
- forloop 10y ago> HN. I can't speak to that. My quote was about Quora. > By bubble, I mean the memetic assumptions that any culture takes for granted. Oh, I see. Like slavery, religion, or when people talk about morality without knowing there are different moralities, or the unquestioning love of the state. AKA mass ignorance. Or more benignly: tradition/mores. And on the positive side: protocols.
- mindslight 10y agoYeah although in this case I meant smaller scale. Something seems to have forcibly woken him up from the standard Silicon Valley dream.