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I wonder about polarizing, nascent topics. Does contentiousness indicate a passing fad, a long-term paradigm shift, or is it an independent property?
by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I wonder about polarizing, nascent topics.
Does contentiousness indicate a passing fad, a long-term paradigm shift, or is it an independent property?
- dang 5y agoI'm not sure I follow you but one thing I'm pretty sure of is that topics get more contentious as they get more repetitive. Since there's less new information for the mind to sink its teeth into, it makes up for it by formulating the old information in snarkier and nastier ways. That's what I mean here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=mind%20amuse%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- failwhaleshark 5y agoThat sounds like contention you've observed correlates with established, balkanized tribal factions. Perhaps it's most typically bikeshedding about minutiae in order to have an argument. Argument - Monty Python https://youtu.be/ohDB5gbtaEQ https://youtu.be/ohDB5gbtaEQ