There is a collective impatience to Hacker News comments. If s'thing is not easy to grok immediately, the comments fill with dismissal
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@michael_nielsen They are all so smart; if they don't understand something immediately, someone else must be dumb.
. @michaelhoffman There are plenty of thoughtful commenters. But for things outside conventional narrative the _collective_ response is weak
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@michael_nielsen As a biologist, reading HN biology threads usually frustrating. Participants know so little yet seem so very certain. -
@michaelhoffman Sure (ditto physics). It's often great on stuff that's directly tech- or startup-related. And s'times gems outside
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