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I'm willing to accept this if we only hire people who are on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum to whoever is suggesting this. If you are a conservative, we will hire pr…

Don't try to get away with sarcasm. Whether this is part of your secret masterplan, or a casual Sunday morning comment, is irrelevant. You referred to Quillette's articles as, "bul…

Sigh. This seems to be a common pattern on HN where users make very strong negative claims about some person/organisation without even attempting to justify it. I wonder if this is…

I'd say that behavior is often called "virtue signaling" when it's mostly other people who have to pay the cost for someone's "virtuous" behavior. Example: Y Combinator notices how…

From "Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement" ( https://www.gwern.net/Complement ): > Joel Spolsky in 2002 identified a major pattern in technology business & economics: the pat…

For people not aware of Peterson, I want you not to take the parent comment seriously. Peterson is a highly polarizing figure, and people tend to have very strong positive/negative…

> In addition to being a misogynist (top videos include "Feminism versus FACTS" and "Why feminism poisons everything") Stop. This type of public character assassination is complete…

Urbit is interesting for me in how I first couldn't understand its purpose at all. Since then, I have had several cases of pondering on some difficult problem, only to find myself …

> Is this more Jordan Peterson, “woe is men” shit? Acknowledging the existence of a problem affecting men? > ... then that is their problem, as individuals ... I agree, but the soc…

If you mean your post as a general argument against organisations claiming to value any vague "good thing", I can respect that. With few word changes in your comment, you could use…

What data are you referring to?

Trump is often described as narsisstic, petty, childish, unpredictable etc. and he seems much more likely to act based on personal emotions rather than "rational cost/benefit analy…

Sam Altman wrote in a blog post, "Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me. I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Bei…

Very exciting news! I hope YC will help Chinese startups become global. My biggest problem with Silicon Valley is its ideological uniformity and the increasing willingness to use t…