There’s a very long and deep dive into the topic of healthy communities here https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/stor

There’s a very long and deep dive into the topic of healthy communities here https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html which I enjoyed. To borrow from that analysis I would say that HN do exhibit some tribal thinking tendencies but over all dissenting perspectives are tolerated enough to allow new knowledge about a wide variety of topics to bubble up. As someone noted the seemingly large amount of subject experts present for those topics might contribute more to this than the actual culture though. And often enough some self proclaimed expert, or an entire clique of them, spin off into some thread sharing their take. But I’d say there just enough skepticism presented to prevent things to devolve into pure cargo culting.