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It's hard to get more ironic than farming upvotes on the internet talking about how you transcended ego or whatever.
by slibhb 2y ago
It's hard to get more ironic than farming upvotes on the internet talking about how you transcended ego or whatever.
- masspro 2y agoOr maybe they just wanted to share something connected to the article
- MichaelZuo 2y agoIt’s a signalling problem, a 31 day old pseudonymous account is pretty always going to enjoy vastly less credibility than say a 10 year old account with hundreds of thousand of karma. If the latter wrote the above comment, nobody would question if the real intention was farming for this or that, since it would make practically no difference for the account holder or the passing reader.
- Gud 2y agoWouldn’t it make more sense to suspect the account with hundreds of thousands of karma points to be the karma farmer?
- hshshshshsh 2y agoYou should always be suspicious of anything that you have not experienced yourself. I used to care about HN karma a lot before spiritual awakening. Had 2 accounts with 2000+ karma before. It was one of those things that helped in building a grand ego for myself. Now I just prefer to post from randomly created HN accounts. You can probably come back a few months later and see this account to be no longer active.
- hshshshshsh 2y agoAhh. I think I misread what you wrote. Ignore the above comment.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoNo, because the top 99.99+ percentile of accounts will attract much greater scrutiny from the mods.
- DoingIsLearning 2y agoStupid/naïve question is there even a business model for karma farming in HN? I get that twitter/reddit/YT/insta/TT is relevant for product placement, stealth marketing, political PR, propaganda etc. But is there economic value in HN accounts? Other than the occasional YC startup pitch most of the content here is for the purpose of sharing info/tech discussion. Am I missing something? Or are people just online 'community' jaded?
- lazide 2y agoOne of the biggest and hardest lessons in Buddhist (monk) practice is that self deception is as fundamental, and as hard to avoid, as breathing.
- hshshshshsh 2y agoI get the idea but I would also be skeptical of Buddhists acting like they have it all figured out.
- lazide 2y agoFor sure. Though at least monks nominally figured out the only winning move is not to play. Depending on your definition of ‘winning’ anyway. Depending on one’s perspective, it could be the ultimate loser religion, or the ultimate winner. Pretty clear why China loves to kick Nepal in the sensitive bits, either way.
- hackable_sand 2y agoI maintain that competition is a human construction. Eat and be eaten, but accept both for what they are.
- lazide 2y agoSince most species appear to have some variant of competition, why do you think it is a human construction?
- hackable_sand 2y agoI disagree. Not to say that keeping score is immoral, just artificial.
- lazide 2y agoWhat do you call ‘bucks fighting over the cows, and the winner gets to breed them’ other than keeping score? Or ‘the biggest bear gets the territory and the associated food’. While marking trees and rubbing musk. Humans have just evolved a more abstract and indirect way of accomplishing the same sorts of things. What else is money/power, after all? Instead of doing those things, Humans put up signs saying things like ‘This project brought to you by Mayor Daley’ with their picture on it, or ‘Speed limit enforced by Radar’ while driving around in obnoxiously obvious cars with their department name on the side. It’s the same thing though. It’s fundamental to the nature of evolutionary success in most dynamics we’re in. Not all though. Sea turtles don’t seem to care, for example. If you’re talking about ‘keeping score’ in the sense of ‘retribution’/‘removing competition’ then I present [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_in_carnivores https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_in_carnivores], specifically ‘non parental infanticide’.
- uoaei 2y agoMoreso than riding a moral high horse while violating etiquette and explicit guidelines?
- slibhb 2y agoI haven't transcended my ego!
- hshshshshsh 2y agoSpiritual awakening ego is a real thing :) I don't think anyone go fully egoless. Maybe with exceptions of people like Ramana Maharishi. It's just the ego is diluted. There are varying levels of ego one can experience. I think a reduction in ego makes you more present and do things with less judgments. And be more open to new ideas.
- hshshshshsh 2y agoNever claimed I transcended ego. I said my ego was diluted. Of course I have ego. It's just much more less than I used to have.