Open Letter to Paul Graham

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-paul-graham

by adamhs • 6 years ago

25 11 6 years ago

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How does this stuff get in the front page?

Look, I’m all up for challenging PG’s essays and I think he has no problem with that, but this post is flat out garbage in every way.

agustif• 6 years ago

You get 7 friends to upvote at the same time on a slow-news weekend?

blickentwapft2• 6 years ago

You got it.

From a brand new account no less.

sanxiyn2• 6 years ago

Because it is on topic, aka good hackers would find it interesting?

lawwantsin17• 6 years ago

I'm all for punching up and PG often writes total BS, but universities do not universally agree because they are church states. Let's keep hitting graham tho. He's the real powerful idiot.

einpoklum• 6 years ago

It's "state church (organs)", not "church states".

bJGVygG7MQVF8c• 6 years ago

What was happening between 1920 and 1940? The universities were taking power. In 1900, the idea of a professor telling the government what to do was borderline absurd. By 1940, it was normal. By 1960, it was universal—all “public policy” in future would be determined by “science."

And, because the Ring works like that, power was taking them—with its favorite toy, money.

This letter is great, actually.

shadowgovt• 6 years ago

We get it, Mencius, you still think you're the smartest person in the room.

classicsnoot• 6 years ago

And the HN trend continues: attack the speaker, ignore the words, congratulate self, move on.

In the spirit of disclosure, I agree with Yarvin on many points. One position I've never seen thoroughly rebutted is the mutual doctrine/dogma of every public and ivy league University system. Just like the Catholic Church, you get turf disputes, subtle thematic variations, and degrees of skill differences. Just like the Protestants, you get dramatic variations of window dressing. But I challenge anyone to demonstrate a core, ideological difference held by any number of institutions. Obviously, Bob Jones University doesn't count, and why should they? The bare handful of private institutions that deviate from the Norm do not count in any other setting. Harvard™ makes an edict, the Church of Learn follows suit, heretics are smoked out, and Progress marches forward.

Open Letter to Paul Graham

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