Actually, there’s been overwhelmingly more appreciation of this than disagreement. It got submitted to HN and was +110 there, and 80%+ of the comments were positive. I also got a half dozen emails saying thanks.
‘This far into the thread’ references comments not the initial post. You can get 110 upvotes on HN based purely based on having a trivially obvious premise that relates to nerds.
But you know what? You’re right. I thought I would try to address everyone’s concerns, criticisms, and share my experiences. And some people are taking personal offense, on an emotional level. That’s not my intent—so yes, indeed, I’ll bow out of the discussion now.
Others are noting that you are doing things offensive as a matter of academic interest.
Note that the ‘for now’ sounds ominous. A threat, if you will, of polluting the epistemic environment in the future. You appear to be unable or unwilling to learn or understand feedback—yet another example of what will be considered an accidental defection, here more than elsewhere.
Yes. Yet I’m not surprised in retrospect. Contempt is the brain killer. At least, that is the one state that I’ve learned provokes me to simple mistakes. Far more than drunkenness for example. Every time I’ve said stupid things (in my best retrospective judgement) it has been when the context has provoked me to contempt. Sometimes I remember to eject before it is too late but I evidently haven’t fully made a habit of it just yet.
‘This far into the thread’ references comments not the initial post. You can get 110 upvotes on HN based purely based on having a trivially obvious premise that relates to nerds.
Others are noting that you are doing things offensive as a matter of academic interest.
Note that the ‘for now’ sounds ominous. A threat, if you will, of polluting the epistemic environment in the future. You appear to be unable or unwilling to learn or understand feedback—yet another example of what will be considered an accidental defection, here more than elsewhere.
He didn’t say ‘for now’.
Don’t you hate it when that happens? :)
Yes. Yet I’m not surprised in retrospect. Contempt is the brain killer. At least, that is the one state that I’ve learned provokes me to simple mistakes. Far more than drunkenness for example. Every time I’ve said stupid things (in my best retrospective judgement) it has been when the context has provoked me to contempt. Sometimes I remember to eject before it is too late but I evidently haven’t fully made a habit of it just yet.
Almost every time for me. I’ve managed one or two stupidities even without that preparation.
It’s just so much more embarrassing to realise that other people being foolish doesn’t preclude being stupid myself. :P