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Yeah sharing knowledge for free is definitely hubris. For sure.

hef19898 3y ago
Sure it is, if you have no idea if your knowledge is actully usefull and you push it anyway. Just imagine how you feel if someone, say a consultant or a agile master, shows up at your work and tells how to do your job without having any experience with it, or the environment you are doing it for. There are even multiple threads on HN every week accusing those consultants of hubris in various ways.
- SR2Z 3y ago
  Presumably they didn't just fly in and wing it, and it's kind of a given that any solutions to this problem will be different to the status quo. The only thing that shows more hubris than telling foreigners how to live is foreigners dying en masse because they refuse to change their way of life - see, America on cars or gun control.
dahart 3y ago
Correct, it definitely can be if it’s unsolicited advice and/or if the “knowledge” is low quality, incomplete, difficult to apply, or just ignorant of Chesterton’s Fence.
antisthenes 3y ago
Yep, snooty early 20-somethings flying halfway across the world to teach people with hundreds years of experience. For sure that's not just virtue signaling and youthful delusion. For sure.
- randomopining 3y ago
  I'm making the assumption that whoever is sharing the knowledge has valuable knowledge. Offering value for free is the definition of benevolence. I don't know the case, so yeah if it was just people without knowledge coming in and forcing it on them... ok.
triceratops 3y ago
Let me drop by your workplace and tell you how to do your job. And call you ungrateful when you don't listen to me. I mean, I have no idea what you do for a living and you have no reason to believe I have some special expertise you lack. But hey, free knowledge right?
- randomopining 3y ago
  I'm making the assumption that whoever is sharing the knowledge has valuable knowledge. Offering value for free is the definition of benevolence.

hef19898 3y ago

Sure it is, if you have no idea if your knowledge is actully usefull and you push it anyway. Just imagine how you feel if someone, say a consultant or a agile master, shows up at your work and tells how to do your job without having any experience with it, or the environment you are doing it for. There are even multiple threads on HN every week accusing those consultants of hubris in various ways.

SR2Z 3y ago
Presumably they didn't just fly in and wing it, and it's kind of a given that any solutions to this problem will be different to the status quo. The only thing that shows more hubris than telling foreigners how to live is foreigners dying en masse because they refuse to change their way of life - see, America on cars or gun control.

dahart 3y ago

Correct, it definitely can be if it’s unsolicited advice and/or if the “knowledge” is low quality, incomplete, difficult to apply, or just ignorant of Chesterton’s Fence.

antisthenes 3y ago

Yep, snooty early 20-somethings flying halfway across the world to teach people with hundreds years of experience. For sure that's not just virtue signaling and youthful delusion. For sure.

randomopining 3y ago
I'm making the assumption that whoever is sharing the knowledge has valuable knowledge. Offering value for free is the definition of benevolence. I don't know the case, so yeah if it was just people without knowledge coming in and forcing it on them... ok.

triceratops 3y ago

Let me drop by your workplace and tell you how to do your job. And call you ungrateful when you don't listen to me. I mean, I have no idea what you do for a living and you have no reason to believe I have some special expertise you lack. But hey, free knowledge right?

randomopining 3y ago
I'm making the assumption that whoever is sharing the knowledge has valuable knowledge. Offering value for free is the definition of benevolence.