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Because HN wants to believe that the same "throw away what's been done before and reason from first principles" approach that serves them well in engineering ca
by lukasb 6y ago
Because HN wants to believe that the same "throw away what's been done before and reason from first principles" approach that serves them well in engineering can be applied to social problems. (Spoiler: it can't.)
- AssPirate 6y agoOk retard, why not?
- AssPirate 6y agoI'll be surprised if I'm not shadow banned already
- ketamine__ 6y agoWhy are you wasting time on this centralized platform. It's sooo outdated.
- mlthoughts2018 6y agoThis feels almost like a false flag sort of extreme comment, knowingly violating the rules, just to make it seem like Slate Star Codex supporters are this kind of discourteous, bro-y, insulting aggressive group. Maybe it’s not actually a false flag, but let’s be clear that it utterly doesn’t represent the kind of values most SSC readers subscribe to. While I don’t like the original comment’s criticism of why people like SSC, that in no way justifies this type of extremely inappropriate response, full stop.
- jimrandomh 6y agoI don't think that's what Scott is doing. See this post (2017): https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-the-skulls/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...