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I mean they weren't quiet, just drowned out. There's this mindset of trusting dreams/drama/personalities more than verifiable processes, and as communities lik
by Eji1700 3y ago
I mean they weren't quiet, just drowned out.
There's this mindset of trusting dreams/drama/personalities more than verifiable processes, and as communities like HN have shown, even people in fields associated with better logic clearly are willing to discard all the caution they'd normally use because they'd like it to be true and someone is saying it is.
I feel like SBF actually represents this flaw wonderfully. A person who just does what he wants and has mostly been well enough off to dodge any sort of real consequences. He probably still thought he was doing nothing wrong and still does because the idea that he could be wrong is just not possible because he knows so much.
Honestly my already low opinion of groups like WHO/SEC has dropped tremendously with recent events and how they were handled on drama/media reporting rather than actual evidence and science. This rush to the story is hellishly toxic to doing things right, and the vitriol people will spew if you conflict with them on it is gross.
- mrguyorama 3y ago>even people in fields associated with better logic This is such an HN elitist opinion that needs to go away. Programmers aren't magically better at "logic" ie making good conclusions from messy data. We still have human brains, and are equally prone to the same exact logical fallacies and biases as everyone else. The human brain is an anti-rational system. Stop pretending we are special little geniuses just because we know advanced math or javascript. The only filter function for HN is a willingness to read text from people who think they are better than you
- Eji1700 3y agoI said associated for a reason. Personally I think most "smart" fields have about the same ratio of morons as any other.