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Re:The Four Quadrants of Conformism by Dumblydorr on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:01AM (#23938915)
This is one of PG's weaker essays. He attempts to glide between psychology, history, politics, and philosophy without proper evidence or background in those areas. His construct is somewhat interesting on the surface but is only supported by his own feelings and his own anecdata, he doesn't point to anything relevant or similar written by actual experts.
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Re:The Four Quadrants of Conformism by dhimes on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:07AM (#23938972)
The essay is very good starting with this paragraph:

You'd think it would be obvious just from that sentence what a dangerous game they're playing. But I'll spell it out. There are two reasons why we need to be able to discuss even "bad" ideas.

Everything above that is just setting up the rest.

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Re:The Four Quadrants of Conformism by threatofrain on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:36AM (#23939286)
Yeah but unless there's someone who is a domain expert, deeply affiliated with experts from other domains, willing to drop into HN to give free advice... gurus are what you get.

As popular as HN is, there are surprisingly few people willing to do this.

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Re:The Four Quadrants of Conformism by minikites on Friday July 24, 2020 @09:38AM (#23939314)
Why would they even try on HN, a site that famously looks down on any subject that isn't STEM or closely adjacent?
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