I don't think HN needs the top comment to be a vague attack on someone in response to a blog post that the comment doesn't even interact with.

Did he struck a nerve? All I'm seeing here are attacks on his person rather than discussing his post, which is not even that controversial, just some common sense stuff.

He’s written some posts I disagree with, but your comment here has no rebuttal, no counter arguments. I’m not sure you’ve even read the post.

This trope also contains a trap, however. There have been major insights from people stepping outside their lane. Physicists went into econ and built a whole subfield called econophysics, with Pareto and Mandelbrot among them. Mathematicians have transformed biology with population genetics, which led scientists to predict how genes spread through populations. Or the SIR model for how infections spread. Hidden Markov models lead to gene finding. Closer to home, we have exceptional programmers making giant piles of money in finance, with Simons and his Medallion Fund returning some 66% before fees. And then there's Bitcoin.

Geohot is a bit of a jestermaxxer, but you really haven't presented much of an argument to support your conclusions.

Downvoted you, because:

1) You are not engaging with the content of the post at all. I would not mind if you actually articulated why you found this particular take so asinine/cringeworthy. But you don't.

2) You're unnecessarily uncharitable (the blog footer already reads "A home for poorly researched ideas that I find myself repeating a lot anyway"; there's no need to be so snarky).

What's also kind of whatever is that he cracked the iPhone and the PS3 and then...

Most of the noise around him is who is hiring him and who is firing him. I can't think of anything that has been attributed to him in ages.

He never shook the name "Egohot" from the Playstation days and it's just continually reinforced every time he comes back out of the woodwork.

Exactly the same on the other side though. If we believed that Dario Amodei or Sam Altman really knew how The Economy in its entirety worked, which is what they’re constantly pretending to do, then we should give them the central planning keys to the kingdom and declare communism tomorrow. I’m not being entirely facetious.

But how do I know stupid blogs are your niche, you don't even link to one in your profile!

Sound like a description of Elon and the X fanboys firehose.

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