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Duh; society is built on an honor system. We look away to “live our life” and tacitly believe others are behaving honorably. And they all do. Economists teac

Duh; society is built on an honor system. We look away to “live our life” and tacitly believe others are behaving honorably. And they all do. Economists teach us inflation is good because if we increase worker buying power they might own more than the current landlords. Hedge funds short stocks 200% to crater companies and make a profit. Social media manipulates our biochemistry (arguably wasteful consumerism is built around this altogether.) We’re undermining the security of our habitat for future people through all of this. Everyone is acting honorably given our detailed history of being honorable people.

voz_ 5y ago
I notice a giant trend of new, throwaway, accounts quipping on here and on reddit about inflation. First order botting/targeting, or second order side-effects of shills hit by first order on another site?
- kktkti9 5y ago
  Because you think you noticed a trend it means the first abstraction that pops into your head. Sure, that’s how it works. I’ve noticed a trend of people good at abstraction believing they know the state of all particles that ever were and ever will be, use emotional language to make routine cognitive moments giant feeling. Like that’s just how it is for all time, man.
- Smithalicious 5y ago
  We have fostered a culture where it's not safe to hold controversial opinions under your own name. I don't think the inflation issue is sensitive enough where I am so I can come out and say that current US inflation policy is dreadful and will come to roost, but I would never give an opinion that I think could be used against me on my main account anywhere anymore. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a paid shill. No, I will go further and say very few people are actually paid shills, and I don't like this boogeyman (though sadly shills of course also exist).
  - kktkti9 5y ago
    Indeed. Our superior intellect of the fifth order to ninth power above tribal humans of course obliges us annihilate them along with the stable human environment. It’s terrible what China is doing to ethnic groups. They should chase extinction of the species itself! As if that doesn’t have old school biblical vibes. People were promised hell on Earth! Play video games. Collect social points. Write code. Superior. Intellect echoes to fade out
    - voz_ 5y ago
      This feels like a GPT3 comment, or something you'd find scrawled on the side of a van in a walrmart parking lot. Please stop lowering the overall comment quality of HN.
      - kktkti9 5y ago
        As a long time HNer who quit caring about the points long ago, the overall comment quality on HN tanked a while ago. As a mathematician, I’m often dismayed by the fantasy and fallacy the tech crowd buys into. Tech hype isn’t high quality content, since most software is math that was already figured out years ago. And finding yet another math object that abides the well known order of operations is a bit quaint at this point. None of this is bending laws of physics. Being accurately meta about reality is redundant and repetitive. Edit: pretty great when a FB employee complains about the state of online discourse, btw. When a paycheck depends on ones obliviousness and all that.
- lupire 5y ago
  Inflation crusaders are bitcoin pumpers.
  - kktkti9 5y ago
    I don’t bother with Bitcoin; you think I have any faith in cellar dwelling computer nerds? I gots a masters, I know elastic structures. What do I need other math nerds for? In the end they’d turn to the same old nation state for a bailout. Y’all want to work on your art projects, fine. I see no reason to industrialize confirming mathematics operators still work.

voz_ 5y ago

I notice a giant trend of new, throwaway, accounts quipping on here and on reddit about inflation. First order botting/targeting, or second order side-effects of shills hit by first order on another site?

kktkti9 5y ago
Because you think you noticed a trend it means the first abstraction that pops into your head. Sure, that’s how it works. I’ve noticed a trend of people good at abstraction believing they know the state of all particles that ever were and ever will be, use emotional language to make routine cognitive moments giant feeling. Like that’s just how it is for all time, man.
Smithalicious 5y ago
We have fostered a culture where it's not safe to hold controversial opinions under your own name. I don't think the inflation issue is sensitive enough where I am so I can come out and say that current US inflation policy is dreadful and will come to roost, but I would never give an opinion that I think could be used against me on my main account anywhere anymore. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a paid shill. No, I will go further and say very few people are actually paid shills, and I don't like this boogeyman (though sadly shills of course also exist).
- kktkti9 5y ago
  Indeed. Our superior intellect of the fifth order to ninth power above tribal humans of course obliges us annihilate them along with the stable human environment. It’s terrible what China is doing to ethnic groups. They should chase extinction of the species itself! As if that doesn’t have old school biblical vibes. People were promised hell on Earth! Play video games. Collect social points. Write code. Superior. Intellect echoes to fade out
  - voz_ 5y ago
    This feels like a GPT3 comment, or something you'd find scrawled on the side of a van in a walrmart parking lot. Please stop lowering the overall comment quality of HN.
    - kktkti9 5y ago
      As a long time HNer who quit caring about the points long ago, the overall comment quality on HN tanked a while ago. As a mathematician, I’m often dismayed by the fantasy and fallacy the tech crowd buys into. Tech hype isn’t high quality content, since most software is math that was already figured out years ago. And finding yet another math object that abides the well known order of operations is a bit quaint at this point. None of this is bending laws of physics. Being accurately meta about reality is redundant and repetitive. Edit: pretty great when a FB employee complains about the state of online discourse, btw. When a paycheck depends on ones obliviousness and all that.
lupire 5y ago
Inflation crusaders are bitcoin pumpers.
- kktkti9 5y ago
  I don’t bother with Bitcoin; you think I have any faith in cellar dwelling computer nerds? I gots a masters, I know elastic structures. What do I need other math nerds for? In the end they’d turn to the same old nation state for a bailout. Y’all want to work on your art projects, fine. I see no reason to industrialize confirming mathematics operators still work.