Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on You're Calling *Who* A Cult Leader? - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 March 2009 06:57AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 March 2009 10:38:14AM 30 points [-]

So... just for the record... this post got up to #1 on HN, and then HN crashed, and is, so far as I can tell, still down a couple of hours later.

When you consider that the Less Wrong site format was inspired by HN, that LW is based on Reddit source code, and that Reddit is a Y Combinator company, I guess that writing about Paul Graham and then getting voted up on Hacker News exceeded the maximum recursion depth of the blogosphere.

Comment author: dfranke 23 March 2009 01:08:16AM 11 points [-]

And here you are commenting on HN going down, and here's the guy who submitted this to HN replying to your comment.

Comment author: MichaelGR 22 March 2009 05:42:25PM 9 points [-]

"I guess that writing about Paul Graham and then getting voted up on Hacker News exceeded the maximum recursion depth of the blogosphere."

Just wait until PG writes an essay about all this...

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 22 March 2009 12:56:53PM 11 points [-]

This would be an excellent time for a "stack overflow" joke, if only Spolsky could be worked in somehow.