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TFA quotes Lao Tzu: "The wise man knows he doesn’t know. The fool doesn’t know he doesn’t know." I'd add the wisdom of Bokonon[0] to that sentiment:
by nobody9999 5y ago
TFA quotes Lao Tzu:
"The wise man knows he doesn’t know. The fool
doesn’t know he doesn’t know."
I'd add the wisdom of Bokonon[0] to that sentiment:
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn
something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser
than before. He is full of murderous resentment
of people who are ignorant without having come
by their ignorance the hard way. "
I'd point out that "Hacker News Disease" as defined by the author is most certainly not limited to, nor did it begin with, tech discussion sites like HN.
It's becoming more widespread and the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites.
But that doesn't comport with all non-tech, non-elites who also engage in this sort of thing.
In fact, it's pretty much the same thing discussed by Tom Nichols in his 2017 book[1], The Death of Expertise. I recommend it.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise
Edit: Removed extraneous article.
- grassmudhorse 5y ago> the author wants to paint this as essentially the arrogance of the tech elites. Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article: > In fairness, this particular problem isn’t by any means endemic to Hacker News. It occurs at the crossroads where a bunch of smart people meet general tech industry discussion. I’m sure there are plenty of places that suffer from Hacker News Disease (and they probably had it first, have a terminal case of it, and are much less civil about it too) but HN is just the only one I’ve participated in, so they have the misfortune of being the community I’ve named it after.
- nobody9999 5y ago>Clearly you didn't read the second paragraph of the article Actually, I did. In fact, your quote is specifically referring to tech discussion websites, as it explicitly says: It occurs at the crossroads where a bunch of smart people meet general tech industry discussion. What do you think the author means by "smart people meet general tech industry discussion?"