I stopped reading or contributing to Hacker News a decade or more ago. The people there aren’t worth it. They’re mostly pseudo-intellectuals in the tradition of Paul Graham - meaning they use big words, without actually knowing anything about the topic.
It's the arguments of a not-very-talented undergraduate philosophy student who has mostly forgotten what little he learned, but is still convinced he Knows Everything. Apparently his stuff on art is pretty much the same (great piece here): https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm …