These threads show a phenomenon I've noticed a lot lately. That many smart people suddenly flout HN guidelines[1] on a topic when they agree with the mainstream

These threads show a phenomenon I've noticed a lot lately. That many smart people suddenly flout HN guidelines[1] on a topic when they agree with the mainstream view. Rather than use their purported expertise to substantively refute the misconceptions, they give content-free remarks that amount to no more than "the bandwagon doesn't believe this, therefore you should feel low-status for believing it, therefore you are wrong". This topic seems to make intellectually-uncurious status seekers out of otherwise hacker-mentality people. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33153931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33153931