Must we jerk each other off to that degree? It’s a tech focused Reddit that’s less Redditty.

if you find "a site for intellectual curiosity" to be "jerk each other off"-worthy, your pretention-meter is way miscalibrated

I wouldn't mind a reach-around. I mean, if you're offering.

Otherwise, OP's right. This isn't news agg. It's news talky-talk. There is a high degree of back and forth, without all of the mess of that other place. The back and forth requires intellectual curiosity. It's a prerequisite.

> HN is not a news aggregation site.

Probably not mainly, but isn't this one of its functions?

I think we're getting into matters of definition. Do I count on HN to stay aware of current events? No; it would be a very incomplete picture. Much of HN has nothing to do with current events.

This only has to do with mismatch of the scope of HN and the scope that you are interested in.

Hacker News seems to me a news aggregator, just with a certain limited scope.

> This only has to do with mismatch of the scope of HN and the scope that you are interested in.

It's not scope mismatch, it's that HN doesn't present a (nearly, roughly) complete picture of current events in any scope (other than the scope of itself, of course).

But any news aggregator's scope is itself.

Isn't that Wittgenstein? :)

Please make at least a vague reference, I haven't read him.

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"

is a famous quote attributed to him afaik (maybe i mangled it a bit).

This is what happens when people have too much time for HN. It is a stretch to interpret my reply like that.

Wittgenstein was/is highly influential on set theory incuding, if I recall, something something a thing being a set of itself.

I just meant that you seemingly said nothing.

The last part was a joke; you got it, but you didn't get it. :)