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At some stage it'd be interesting to collate 'dumb things HN believes' TulipMania would join Split Sleep, Drones hitting/near misses planes, X just discovered
by aaron695 9y ago
At some stage it'd be interesting to collate 'dumb things HN believes'
TulipMania would join Split Sleep, Drones hitting/near misses planes, X just discovered Y happened Z years previous to what was thought. This Voynich manuscript article adds to the discussion. The Valley has a unique problem with Y.
- seibelj 9y agoSelf driving cars will be here "in just 5 more years" (I have been hearing that since 2007)...
- dang 9y ago'HN' is a statistical distribution; it doesn't believe anything. Some people here might believe some of those things but I doubt they're the same people, or close to a majority. It's popular to diss one's fellow community members, but kind of in bad taste. If you're commenting here, you're as much 'HN' as the next person.
- aaron695 9y agoHN has emergent behaviour. Like an ants nest or a physical human community or a corporation the behaviour doesn't reflex individuals or even necessarily the majority of individuals. Shrug, I wasn't even saying the dumb things were common. But I do think these emergent memes bleed across to real world issues. While people think it's ok to think hundreds of years ago people were stupid and paid 'really' ridiculous amounts of money for tulips, they will also be susceptible to allow war propaganda like what's coming out of North Korea or Iraq. People are people, do we really think the North Korean's are that dumb they think their leader doesn't poop or see the whole Iraq 'Latif Yahia' saga.