pja

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HN is being ... surprisingly on point with this one. Choice quotes:

“However, reading this article about all these people at their "Galt's Gultch", I thought — "oh, I guess he's a rhinoceros now" ” — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317651

“It's very telling that some of them went full "false modesty" by naming sites like "LessWrong", when you just know they actually mean "MoreRight" ” — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44319387

“I feel like I'm witnessing something that Adam Curtis would cover in the last part of The Century of Self, in real time.” — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317313

etc etc.

 

It will not surprise you at all to find that they protest just a tad too much.

See also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZjXtjRQaD2b4PAser/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning