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Part of the guidelines is also to assume best intent: my point was not about paywall (which was admittedly a bad and superfluous excuse, yet I care not to expen

Part of the guidelines is also to assume best intent: my point was not about paywall (which was admittedly a bad and superfluous excuse, yet I care not to expend time on it further). My intent was to highlight an inconsistency in naming a skill with a negative connotation (dishonesty). How can I more explicitly direct the conversation to why is this skill a "dishonesty expertise" (or rather, an "expert on (ethics and) dishonesty")? I still believe my actual point is "intellectually curious". What other skills are there that are like this? Is there a bad-at-sewing expert who's actually good at sewing?

dredmorbius 3y ago
<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22Please%20don%27t%20pick%20the%20most%20provocative%20thing%22&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> Four replies deep into this thread, are we discussing topics of intellectual curiosity ... or ... something else? That itself is a strong indicator of the issue here. I strongly recommend pg's discussion of comments, particularly about their relationship to kudzu: <http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html>
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