> The overall level of intellect displayed in Hacker News COVID threads is of the holy shit, there goes my faith in humanity level of quality.
Weird, this is one of the only forums online where I can read relatively civil, data-based discussions between people with opposing viewpoints that don’t devolve into calling each other anti-vaxxers or sheep.
Sure there is the typical HN Dunning-Krueger noise from computer scientists discussing biology, but overall I enjoy reading the exchanges in these threads.
There’s really not an equivalent forum on Reddit or Twitter with this high quality discussion around narrative-busting data.
Weird, this is one of the only forums online where I can read relatively civil, data-based discussions between people with opposing viewpoints that don’t devolve into calling each other anti-vaxxers or sheep.
Sure there is the typical HN Dunning-Krueger noise from computer scientists discussing biology, but overall I enjoy reading the exchanges in these threads.
There’s really not an equivalent forum on Reddit or Twitter with this high quality discussion around narrative-busting data.