I'm not sure where the absolute statements came from - only research papers, etc. > find the discussion around a thing to be sometimes more interesting than th

I'm not sure where the absolute statements came from - only research papers, etc. > find the discussion around a thing to be sometimes more interesting than the thing itself Here we differ. The discussions are mostly BS, mostly misinformation, ignorance, jokes, etc. It takes a lot of reading to find a few gems. What an expert writes, in their own domain, about something they've specifically studied in detail, is far more valuable IMHO, filled with beautiful things. I don't rule out all discussion (obviously!). But think of the papers as comments in forums - or as blog posts - but instead of a misinformed hot take, the commenter did a bunch of research in the existing literature, carefully constructed an experiment, and tried out their idea themself - and furthermore, the commenter is an expert themself, like some people who post to HN. It would still be great to learn where you find good material, of any kind.