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>trying to optimize for intellectual curiosity Can you please define for us intellectual curiosity so that we can recognize it and its distinction from apathet
by throwlaplace 6y ago
>trying to optimize for intellectual curiosity
Can you please define for us intellectual curiosity so that we can recognize it and its distinction from apathetic sophistry? Note that the oft-quoted rules aren't descriptive but prescriptive/normative.
Also telling people that disagree with the ethos of the website to go away isn't very productive don't you think? For better or worse we dissenters are part of the tech community and we're entitled to advocate for what we feel a commons like hn should be like.
- sokoloff 6y agoThis site is hosted at yc.com not commons.tech. While the pursuit of intellectual curiosity demands dang and crew work to be inclusive to a point, the final trump card remains “this isn’t actually a tech commons and they do properly ask some people to leave if the pain of their dissent is consistently and significantly greater than their contributions.” In that limited sense, telling people to leave who unproductively disagree with their position is quite productive.
- throwlaplace 6y agoit's a commons because they don't contribute any of the content, not because they own the space.