Please don't take yet another HN thread into yet another repetition of this. It's not that it's wrong. It's that that lemon was squeezed dry years ago, the rind is hard as rock, and the spectacle of HN users gnawing on it is unseemly. It's also off topic. As is usually the case with his writing, there are genuinely interesting things to react to here.
If Wolfram's tic is a thing, the strange way the internet crystallizes on it is also a thing. In fact, it's a mirror image of the thing. Let's resist recreating that here.
> Wolfram's self tic is a thing, but the strange way that internet reactions crystallize on it is also a thing. In fact, it's a mirror image of the same thing.
This is the Wolfram effect: when one person's unusually conspicuous status-seeking behaviour in turn triggers the status preoccupations of a large number of people who usually aren't so bad about it themselves.
> It's that that lemon was squeezed dry years ago, and now the rind is hard as rock, and the spectacle of HN users competing to gnaw on it is unseemly.
Why can’t the other online communities I’m a part of be run by moderators who have a way with words like you do?
If Wolfram's tic is a thing, the strange way the internet crystallizes on it is also a thing. In fact, it's a mirror image of the thing. Let's resist recreating that here.
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