There’s not a drop of irony here. It’s just mindboggling that HN prop these charlatans up like gods. You’re not temporarily embarrassed millionaires - you’re just embarrassing.
Yeah, I don’t know. I’ve been a part of companies where CEOs used this guy’s anecdotal bullshit to push/justify their own agendas. Some even met him and boasted about it like it’s a badge of honor.
This is why I don’t get the recent pg hate that’s been happening on HN. He’s always done this, but now people are saying he’s out of touch because he’s rich/white/old. Majority of things he’s blogged are no-nonsense observations.
> Russia has now become a fascist state, bent on neo-colonial conquest of everything post-Soviet and post-Russian Empire. Russian population, in substantial numbers, supports this fascism and this neo-colonialism.
I thought 1) Most Russians were against the war (“special operation”), and 2) that Russia is losing this war badly and with the new rocket equipment supplied to Ukraine that they’ll be pushed back, etc.
Comments like these should result in at the very least a suspension, if not an outright ban. You’re calling for someone’s death quite liberally. Take a break from HN for your own sake.
Sigh, why does HN keep picking these editorialized articles up? I honestly expect the community to flag this as clickbait.
We have new evidence that invalidates our previous hypotheses, so we adjust course and keep going. “We all” didn’t believe a “myth about depression.” We believed that scientific findings combined with some relevant studies, experiments and feedback loops would yield a step in the right direction. We accept that the scientific method isn’t infallible.
I don’t understand what people are after. The further along we get in our exploration the more hypotheses we’ll invalidate. Which is to be expected. I would rather be outraged at ignorance than outraged at new knowledge that contradicts the old.
Correct. We do not all share this planet. You’re lucky the plutocrats haven’t put you against the wall and shot you but they simply don’t think you’re worth the effort to dispose of. The moment that effort is decreased enough such that your presence and being is more burden than worthwhile, you will be put out of your misery.
If you truly believe that you should have a right, you’ll have to fight for it. Posting on HN calling for a ban isn’t going to cut it. You’ll have to put an end to it and enforce it. Just like they do when they want something.
> So what's going on here? Magic? Graham Hancock thinks a lost civilization of advanced humans visited the peoples of different continents and shared techniques like agriculture with them. Now, I like science fiction, but I think there's a better and simpler explanation for the agricultural multiple as well as all the other examples of simultaneous invention that have puzzled scholars over the decades.
Not to detract from the rest of the article but this is probably the least derisive, fair summary of GH’s work I have come across anywhere close to on a “mainstream” tech news site. Hell must be freezing over if people aren’t calling him a charlatan without actually bothering to read his work and listen to him, first hand, articulate his rationale.
To add, I started treating most information outlets, including HN, as endless faucets of propaganda, misinformation AND misdirection. The outrage is, at best, a farcical play of human dramas unfolding on a stage. To take any of this seriously is borderline pathological.
> All evidence I have seen is that the youth are more prepared than ever to navigate these matters with or without lots of close proximity.
Can’t say I agree with this. I’ve seen too many cases that lead me to believe we are closer to a society-scale neurosis given the scared shitless attitudes displayed by the younger generation over the past 2 years.
Less and less people can navigate their way out of bed with a clear mind, Nevermind ascend and accomplish the aforementioned matters.
Honestly? Flag and move on. It’s really not worth getting controversial over something like this. It’s clearly a cultural/power flex bereft of any technical curiosity and it serves the HN crowd absolutely no use nor leads to any enlightenment to further discuss it - let alone try to “educate” (pardon the term) the author as to why their musing on calcification of thought and behaviour is unhealthy.
Whenever someone tries to pull a little clever power trip and politely silence you or tell you how you should behave and that your language is inappropriate, you owe it to yourself to tell them to fuck off (right after you call their behaviour “gay”, of course.)
It’s a very strange emotional appeal. Yes, you can ban first-hand imports of Russian culture, or any other nation. But what about all the ways in which your culture has already been affected by decades and decades of integrating these works because they stand on their own, aesthetically speaking, regardless of their origin?
I’m reminded of an equally strange move, in an equally strange vein: “Freedom Fries.”