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I have been a HN user for a long time. Honestly, I disagree. Most HN users commenting here with smart stuff about fusion, just read it on another page a day or
by mclightning 4y ago
I have been a HN user for a long time. Honestly, I disagree. Most HN users commenting here with smart stuff about fusion, just read it on another page a day or a week ago, from a bite-sized article or a reddit comment. Everyone, for the most part, parroting what they read on a short note somewhere else. Some more committed ones read the synopsis of a few papers before writing something smart.
Anything you read on the internet, explaining any advanced scientific concepts like fusion etc... take it with a huge grain of salt.
We are all parrots.
- willis936 4y agoSome commenters have devoted their career to it.
- mclightning 4y agoThey’re a tiny tiny minority if any, compared to what we are seeing here in comments. I’m sure they would agree with what I said when they scroll through the comments. I would not want to wander into HN comments section if I am doing any kind of divergent innovation, challenging the limits of what's technically possible. People here just parrot the status-quo as the absolute truth. If that was the case, humanity would have made zero progress. Some nerd in some quiet corner, working hard in disbelief of the rest of the society, is the one changing the course of history. Not the ones, parroting established textual truths. There is GPT-3 for that.