Shocked by @newsycombinator discussion of @NautilusMag piece—explicit defense of tribalism, out-group discrimination https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15322447 …
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As my seatmate asks me: isn't this the opposite of the hacker ethos?
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Answer: yes. And here's the text, via Steven Levy, in case you don't believe me—https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic …
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Whatever the reality of early hacker culture, there was at least lip service paid to ideas of cosmopolitanism—& often much more than that.
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Now see comments like tapallorino's and raverbasher's on the thread taking explicitly racial positions.
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These commenters feel at home on the board—defending not excellence in intellectual matters, the "creation of art and beauty in a machine"…
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But odious ideas about instrinic superiority. What happened,
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I don't know what this is about, but @gruseom (who moderates HN) might.
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