alt Hacker NewsIt is not that you get downvoted because they don’t understand you, it is because you sell your opinion as fact, like an apostle. For example what does it mean that software engineering is solved?
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Prophets are always beaten by average citizens, because prophecy is always unpleasant. It can't be otherwise. At the same time, you can't tell right away whether a person is really a prophet, because it becomes known much later. That's probably why beating them (the simplest solution) turns out to be the most observed.
> it is because you sell your opinion as fact.
The guy's making a prediction. Classifying it as some kind of religious zealotry isn't fair to his point or him.
it's known idiom, it means: optimal algorithm is found; like in "tic tac toe is solved problem".
Check his profile.
> about: I believe in the creation of a machine god
Sounds about right.