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So you want to preserve a problematic principle to keep talking about it's contents? How terribly meta. The shirky principle is not needed. Shirk is already an
by barrysteve 3y ago
So you want to preserve a problematic principle to keep talking about it's contents? How terribly meta.
The shirky principle is not needed. Shirk is already an English word meaning 'avoid or neglect responsibility'.
- dcow 3y agoOr, you’re preserving the HN community by finding some absurd hyper reductionist way to turn an interesting subject into a problem. We could go on… There are numerous and quite normal unproblematic examples of how self-preservation is unwanted and destructive. I for one am interested in learning how and why these incentives evolve and how to structurally combat them so that we never have to talk about harmful examples of the Shirky principle ever again. Concretely apropos and not one whiff of meta.