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Slavish "the man in the arena" worship isn't particularly audacious. Unquestioning support for audacity for the sake of it speaks to lack of discernment. And to
by Apocryphon 2y ago
Slavish "the man in the arena" worship isn't particularly audacious. Unquestioning support for audacity for the sake of it speaks to lack of discernment. And to parrot a HN truism- a failure to account for survivor bias.
By all means, romanticize recklessness even when it results in self-defeating catastrophe. Yet there are plenty of other worthier figures to lionize and archives to patronize- Alexandra Elbakyan and Sci-Hub, the anonymous samizdat dissidents and LibGen.
- renewiltord 2y agoIt's not worship. It's an observation. Those who talk, say they would stop at a precise stopping point, but they never start. Those who do, almost always overshoot this precise stopping point that the talkers refer to. An IA that has the precise stopping point is possible today. But zero people have made it. This is not unique. In fact, I'll tell you what, you make it and I will dedicate my ArchiveTeam Warrior to your project instead for a year.
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- dang 2y agoYou guys both broke the site guidelines in this tit-for-tat spat. Please avoid those in the future. It's not what this site is for, destroys what it is for, and is tedious. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Apocryphon 2y agoHappy to comply even if the other party does not
- dang 2y agoYou guys both broke the site guidelines in this tit-for-tat spat. Please avoid those in the future. It's not what this site is for, destroys what it is for, and is tedious. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html