[morganf]

Why are Marxists Marxist?

Or said differently: when you have a hammer, everything is a nail.

And our belovèd HN, as amazing and as addictive as it is, is a community by for of “the software developer-entrepreneur” and this by definition, with the hammer of “your mind tries to reduce everything to algorithms” (the personality type which is attracted to writing software just for that very reason!) of course they will do that for humans as well.

Of course, I’d love an HN of poets but that would have the problem of the other extreme: empathy emoting so it would be hard to turn that into clear concise cutting and actionable insights…

[godelski]

I think there is a relatively unique thing about programming that makes them/us believe we know more than we do (not unique to programming, but not every job does this). The thing is we often are a jack of all trades types and work with a large range of domains. This gives us insight into those domains but does not make us experts. That insight can trick us into thinking we understand the domain, but expertise comes from understanding nuance and having an intimate understanding of the vernacular. Programmers are often the middle part of that gaussian meme[0]. Enough knowledge to think you understand a subject but not enough knowledge to really know it. It happens because we're human.

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