[jbreckmckye]

I think you are hung up on some careless phrasing on my part.

I'm lambasting the "growth strategy" that leads companies to release worse products via over-optimisation. I am pointing out how this sort of 'growth strategy' would lead to absurd behaviours if a human applied the same logic.

[theodric]

The risk of posting on HN is having your rhetorical flourish taken literally, deconstructed, and criticized in excruciating detail: QED.

[HelloMcFly]

I think the problem here is that "growth mindset" has a more specific meaning to many readers that is not at all synonymous with "growth strategy", and there's some crossing of streams going on.

[throwaway_08932]

This risk multiplies when you have the audacity to make a joke on HN.

[gretch]

Unfortunately this guy broke the first and most important rule of telling a joke -> it has to be funny.

[kibwen]

FWIW, I call this "the virus mentality". Growth at all costs, even if it means the death of the host.

[ChainOfFools]

Well they do call it viral growth unironically. I think the ambivalent moral motivation behind it would be a little better surfaced by calling it the cancer cell mindset.

[willsmith72]

"Growth mindset" has far more and different meaning to "growth strategies of companies"