That's surprising. From the posts making fun of them on Sneer Club I figured it was a den of classic "rationalist" tech nerds that start praising eugenics and talk about "human biodiversity" with thin presence of objectivity at a drop of a hat.
I mean, there's a lot of those too. I'm in tech, I'm used to them cropping up once in a while. But not very often, because I mock them for that shit.
HN is historically very libertarian. But I've been working on them a while. And their material conditions have been working on them for a while. They've all been sold a specific version of the capitalist mythology by a specific kind of capitalist, then it didn't work out (shock), then they got normal jobs where they were paid well but visibly a fraction of what their labor produces.
That's surprising. From the posts making fun of them on Sneer Club I figured it was a den of classic "rationalist" tech nerds that start praising eugenics and talk about "human biodiversity" with thin presence of objectivity at a drop of a hat.
I mean, there's a lot of those too. I'm in tech, I'm used to them cropping up once in a while. But not very often, because I mock them for that shit.
HN is historically very libertarian. But I've been working on them a while. And their material conditions have been working on them for a while. They've all been sold a specific version of the capitalist mythology by a specific kind of capitalist, then it didn't work out (shock), then they got normal jobs where they were paid well but visibly a fraction of what their labor produces.