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> let's talk about what's interesting and stay off the metaphysics Assumption: metaphysics isn't interesting. Clearly many in the HN community disagree.
by ARandomerDude 8y ago
> let's talk about what's interesting and stay off the metaphysics
Assumption: metaphysics isn't interesting.
Clearly many in the HN community disagree.
- dang 8y agoI've detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19836524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19836524 and marked it off-topic. Yes, that's a case I'd make quite strongly. Internet metaphysics isn't interesting in the way the HN guidelines use that word. Such comments tend to be generic, predictable, and self-referential. They're rarely motivated by the article at hand—this case being a perfect example, since it was only the word "soul" that triggered the discussion, not anything the article actually says. They're not inspired by curiosity, and don't gratify it. They're mostly about rehearsing philosophical scripts, and the internet comment is too trivial a format to support genuine reasoning about those. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- warent 8y agoHN is moderated, not democratized.