Becoming the person who does the thing

michaeldoron 9/12/2025|

With love and respect, why is this on HackerNews?

Cthulhu_ 9/12/2025||

Because someone submitted it, it showed up in new or the home page, it didn't need prior approval because there is no editorial board, at least 69 people upvoted it, and it hasn't been removed yet by a moderator if it does break any submission rules.

Because that's how news aggregators like HN and Reddit work.

cestith 9/12/2025||

It’s about adjusting your habits and personality with intention and workarounds for your normal mode. What’s not hackerish about that?

mallowdram 9/12/2025|

Beliefs do not exist, like the words we use. What we have are neat, retrofitted explanations that foot the bill. Sportscasting about those actions that never used words to get there, they just seem to.

Pretty fascinating the retro marriage of words and tech gets us here, to a kind of Gutenberg stage of restriction.

Words and narratives are low-bandwidth compression for meaning. It's simple. How did we get stuck here? We were lazy Pleistocene kids, and lazy Pleistocene kids we remain.

Think hard now, the words are being used to extinct us. How did we get stuck here? Math? Status? Money? a combination of all these.

Look at the status drive that pretends we have beliefs in this post. Read it carefully. Do we have beliefs, or do we simply have actions (neural syntax)?

Debate me, don't just downvote me, that's proving my point.

Time to rethink all communication.