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Re:The Gods on Hacker News by cgriswald on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @01:56PM (#25049765)
That's funny, because I'd just-as-soon historians never spent so much as a CPU cycle analyzing my posts. I've said some intelligent things, some popular things, some uncomfortable-but-I-suspect-true things, some well-reasoned things, etc.. I've certainly had an impact on the people in my real-life sphere and maybe something I've said online has helped a stranger, too. (Comments here on HN have certainly helped me.) But by-and-large, past-me is an idiot and I have no reason to believe future-me won't feel that way about me, too.

Edit: Clarity.

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Re:The Gods on Hacker News by bartread on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:02PM (#25049926)
> But by-and-large, past-me is an idiot and I have no reason to believe future-me won't feel that way about me, too.

I suspect you're probably doing yourself a disservice but I can certainly think of numerous instances of my own idiocy. I should particularly have learned by now not to browse and contribute to internet forums whilst drunk, for example, because this tends to magnify my idiocy[0].

[0] To be clear, I'm not drunk now.

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Re:The Gods on Hacker News by qchris on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:36AM (#25056283)
> But by-and-large, past-me is an idiot and I have no reason to believe future-me won't feel that way about me, too.

Every now and then, I come across something phrased in such a way that it makes something in my brain click. This is one of them, and I'm really leaving this comment so I can find it easily again in the future and maybe get it put on my coffee mug or something.

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