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Personally, I don't put a lot of weight on that. Particularly for people who are terminally online, the Unabomber manifesto is kinda "edgy content". A lot of th
by jmyeet 2y ago
Personally, I don't put a lot of weight on that. Particularly for people who are terminally online, the Unabomber manifesto is kinda "edgy content". A lot of these people want to come off as "edgy". He had Mein Kampf in his Goodreads profile too. Without other evidence, I don't think that really says anything either.
Good example: his Goodreads had "Introduction to Algorithms" in it. This is the de facto textbook at MIT, Stanford, etc and likely UPenn (where he got his undergrad and Masters). Does that mean he read it? Not necessarily.
Put it this way: the number of people who have read Knuth's volumes is a lot smaller than those who own them as essentially expensive bookends or paperweights. But it's a nice way to signal your technical chops.
All of these things need to be taken in a broader context.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoTed K's book is a lucid commentary on technology and society and recommends the dismantling of technological society. Not sure why it would be considered "edgy".
- lazide 2y agoProbably all the mail bombings.
- whateveracct 2y agohilarious GP called him "Ted K"
- goatlover 2y agoDismantling technological society isn't realistic and wouldn't be remotely a good thing, so yeah, that's very edgy.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoIt would be a good thing for every other species besides humans, that's for sure.
- hnfong 2y agoThere are domesticated species that depend on human for their survival. Think crops like maize, pets like dogs (some breeds more so than others), etc.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoI am only concerned with wild species, not domesticated ones.