Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
by lolinder on Monday October 07, 2024 @02:59PM
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Right, but the end goal of the filter isn't just to have a list of passes and fails. The filter exists because OP doesn't want to associate with people who are overly ideological—one way or the other.
If someone silently puts OP in a bucket and never reaches out again, the end goal is still achieved.
Re:Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
by klyrs on Monday October 07, 2024 @08:23PM
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> The filter exists because OP doesn't want to associate with people who are overly ideological—one way or the other.
It's like telling people you enjoy Mein Kampf or Das Kapital because you don't want to associate with people who are overly ideological "one way or another." Atlas Shrugged is literally the defining work of a specific ideology. The inconsistency here is hilarious. OP can live in that bucket for all I care.
Or maybe it's perfectly consistent and more honest than OP intended. Randianism is incompatible with society itself; bucket-dwellers rejoice.
> Really, I'm just looking for people who won't jump down my throat on a faux pas.
I think when cactacea says "huh, ok", this is neither inappropriate, or "jumping down someone's throat", or being "way too supportive" -- so I think by tb_technical's stated standards, cactacea has "passed" the filter, but is understandably alienated.