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What I learned from the comments (and comment voting) on the first version: surprisingly, the HN community is more passionate in their disdain for Mike Arringto
by mrshoe 17y ago
What I learned from the comments (and comment voting) on the first version: surprisingly, the HN community is more passionate in their disdain for Mike Arrington than they are in their worship of pg.
Hopefully this article will allow people to focus on the real points of the first, because he explored some interesting territory there.
- scott_s 17y agoAn alternate conclusion is that given the opportunity to discuss two ideas, where one is inflammatory and simple, and the other is abstract and nuanced, people tend towards the inflammatory. Conversations, then, are like physical systems: they tend to find the lowest energy point.