The thing which distinguished him was getting good guests, before the hype hit. And he generally asks good questions and then shuts up while his guests talk.
It might not break guidelines, but LLM's should not be regarded as sources of truth, and copy-pasting from them is about as interesting as posting the results of a google search.
While I don't agree with the "this shouldn't be on HN" part, people thinking Elon is a Nazi isn't exactly unreasonable. He literally sieg heil'd an audience at Trump's inauguration. Twice. Call it trolling or whatever you like, but he did it and the outcomes for such an act are ... predictable.
To me what is noteworthy is that there's a canon at all. There's none for construction, or law, or medicine. There might be very small ones for politics and finance.
The author is skeptical that the canon actually existed before pc posted about it, but I had read a lot of them, and I don't think any would be too surprising to people who read HN or SSC. And there's plenty of influence from Slashdot before that, and the Whole Earth Catalog before that.
Another one was the one where he went to work in Marketing, and they were doing their research by yelling questions into a well. But I can't find that one.
> Another one was the one where he went to work in Marketing, and they were doing their research by yelling questions into a well. But I can't find that one.
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