This essay is a mess. I won't flag it, but I doubt with such poor definitions it'll make much of a useful conversation on HN. I counted four topics in the firs

This essay is a mess. I won't flag it, but I doubt with such poor definitions it'll make much of a useful conversation on HN. I counted four topics in the first few paragraphs that the author defined in a poor, self-serving way. Any one of these topics and associated definitions would be interesting to talk about. Put them all together and it's just too much to clean up (for folks taking any kind of issue at all with the thesis or conclusion.) It was well-structured and cogent, though. Kudos to the author for that. That puts them well above other essays of this type.