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Steve Edney
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Steve Edney writes Criticality, a personal blog at steveedney.wordpress.com about philosophy and culture. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post for its discussion of hypocrisy, quoting Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age on whether breaking a moral code means someone is insincere.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2006/11/08/hypocrisy-relativism-and-the-diamond-age/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-04-17
What Hacker News says?
One of my favorite discussions of hypocrisy is in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age - a novel which is well worth a read. > "That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code." You can read the full segment on hypocrisy here: http://steveedney.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/hypocrisy-relativ...
Comment linking /2006/11/08/hypocrisy-relativism-and-the-diamond-age/
on “Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost”> An author I'd read in some scifi story or something similar had suggested that the mark of our era was the relentless pursuit and shaming of hypocrisy. Sounds like Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age": http://steveedney.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/hypocrisy-relativ...
Comment linking /2006/11/08/hypocrisy-relativism-and-the-diamond-age/
on “Reddit has the killer social network feature: anonymity”I've always liked Neal Stephenson's take, from "The Diamond Age": http://steveedney.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/hypocrisy-relativ... (Note: that was just the first link I found, I'm not trying to start a debate about the rest of the blog post)
Comment linking /2006/11/08/hypocrisy-relativism-and-the-diamond-age/
on “Merlin Mann “The Philosopher” on Hypocrisy”