News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online? by buboard on Saturday August 24, 2019 @07:38PM (#20790391)
That's not how the world works today though. The delphic aphorisms similarly argue for a certain cosmic indifference. Yet the past 500 years have been guided by excessive overconfidence and an irreverent belief that man Can and should control the universe, and that others should hold that belief too. And it's been wildly successful by material measures.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online? by georgebarnett on Saturday August 24, 2019 @09:22PM (#20790766)
We are no happier as a result of that success. Instead, we are on the verge of destroying our biosphere and civilisation.

Material progress is useful, but hollow.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: How to be less argumentative online? by stevens32 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @11:07PM (#20791111)
That's a material strategy, if it weren't successful by material measures it'd be just a failure in implementation. It's kind of like saying this path was the right path because we've made it pretty far on it.
[ Parent | on HN ]