[paloaltokid]

> I do personally struggle with a system of objection/dismissal based on the "well, it's a dog-eats-world" mindset.

I used to be perplexed by these responses on HN as well but they make a certain kind of sense. If you have really doubled down on science and evolution and take them to their logical extreme, Darwinism really does just reduce to "if I can eat you, I win."

It occurs to me that many posters on HN are very okay with this mindset because they are chasing big dreams in life. And if a few people get hurt while they're on their way to riches, so be it.

You see this sentiment all the time in various comment threads.

[jtr1]

It takes a pretty impoverished understanding of evolution to write off cooperation and symbiosis as strategies for passing on ones genes.

[paloaltokid]

I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying those are the conclusions many folks on this forum seem to have drawn.