DHH's opinion on Peterson

3 pointsposted 9 months ago
by nwhnwh
(twitter.com)

16 Comments

gnabgib

9 months ago

You're editorializing. Tweet text: I'm an atheist, but I've enjoyed many of his religious allegories. So too his various definitions of masculinity. And I find him a far more rigorous thinker than his detractors the vast majority of the time. That he's ALSO entertaining is a cherry on top!

jfengel

9 months ago

By "detractors", does he mean "the usual bunch of chumps rushing out hot takes?"

If so, that doesn't seem a fair comparison. He's a supposed intellectual, and highly influential. They are just dipsticks with twitter accounts, about half of whom will have two-digit IQs just by the law of large numbers, possibly with dozens of followers.

If "detractors" are themselves influential public intellectuals, it would be a stronger statement. But it would also require more support than goes into a tweet.

user

9 months ago

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hshshshsvsv

9 months ago

Nice. It's good to have higher IQ individuals like you hanging around in hacker news to teach us what we should listen to.

nwhnwh

9 months ago

I am sorry?

gus_massa

9 months ago

It's part of the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

nwhnwh

9 months ago

Updated. Do you think the current one is ok?

joegibbs

9 months ago

You can't expect everyone to be perfectly ideologically pure on every topic. I'm not a fan of Peterson and honestly, I think that after the whole benzo addiction and coma I think he's kind of lost it, he's always putting out strange statements. But he's not even saying that he agrees with Peterson on everything.

zero-sharp

9 months ago

Check out his conversation with Matt Dillahunty.

sidcool

9 months ago

So what? Differing opinions seem to upset so many so easily.

nwhnwh

9 months ago

"So what?"

So some of the "successful" people in our industry never read anything other than technical books. And if they have read some, they never understood anything.

sidcool

9 months ago

I don't understand your point.