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constantcryingyesterday at 7:30 PM0 repliesview on HN

Just aesthetically one of the worst websites I have ever seen.

It is obviously impossible to engage with every single idea proposed at once, but I think the main thrust of the argument is encapsulated in

>"Personally, I feel like the world might be a happier, more cooperative place if situations were by default framed as Stag Hunts."

Which is just so bizarrely and obviously false. Especially when just sentences before the issue of climate change came up, which certainly is not a positive sum game and we would be lucky if it was a zero sum game, but given all evidence it is very obviously a negative sum game, where governments get to talk about who has to bear the most pain. (And it isn't clear that cooperation even is the best opportunity for survival)

The optimism strikes me as so blindingly naive that it makes it hard to take anything said seriously. Maybe this is just a generational divide, many of the older people I know, in their 40s or older, seem much more optimistic about the state of the world. And the attempt to justify affirmative action is just so bizarre. If historic grievances are legitimate arguments for preferential treatment, then you will never get me to accept that this is anything but a brutal race to the bottom, which is about who can make the other suffer most. No, the world is not a positive sum game and I will never live under the delusion that it is.