On: Who lusts for certainty lusts for lies

[chromoblob]

> HN is not a news aggregation site.

Probably not mainly, but isn't this one of its functions?

[wolverine876 → chromoblob]

I think we're getting into matters of definition. Do I count on HN to stay aware of current events? No; it would be a very incomplete picture. Much of HN has nothing to do with current events.

[chromoblob → wolverine876]

This only has to do with mismatch of the scope of HN and the scope that you are interested in.

Hacker News seems to me a news aggregator, just with a certain limited scope.

[wolverine876 → chromoblob]

> This only has to do with mismatch of the scope of HN and the scope that you are interested in.

It's not scope mismatch, it's that HN doesn't present a (nearly, roughly) complete picture of current events in any scope (other than the scope of itself, of course).

[chromoblob → wolverine876]

But any news aggregator's scope is itself.

[wolverine876 → chromoblob]

Isn't that Wittgenstein? :)

[chromoblob → wolverine876]

Please make at least a vague reference, I haven't read him.

[wolverine876 → chromoblob]

Wittgenstein was/is highly influential on set theory incuding, if I recall, something something a thing being a set of itself.

[moritzwarhier → chromoblob]

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"

is a famous quote attributed to him afaik (maybe i mangled it a bit).

[chromoblob → moritzwarhier]

This is what happens when people have too much time for HN. It is a stretch to interpret my reply like that.

[chromoblob → wolverine876]

I just meant that you seemingly said nothing.

[wolverine876 → chromoblob]

The last part was a joke; you got it, but you didn't get it. :)