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speaking of templates, I built Hacker News Git Blame https://www.hngitblame.com/ with Zero Gravity Factory https://www.zerogravityfactory.com/

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The accounts all should be either a prominent tech company founder, or among the top HN posters of all time! https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

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You're totally right. Naming this was a bit difficult — was afraid of calling it something like Guess Who? in case I got sued.

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hahaha that would be insane

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legendary, ty

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You're in the game! dang recommended you earlier

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Ah good point, will make it more clear that it's dang, the moderator. And will add an "HN: " tag to everyone's usernames (if available).

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thanks! based on your karma, will add you to the game as well :) please LMK if you have other recommendations

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Hahaha yes for sure, but you can count those as free points for now. If people end up loving this project I'll think about adding obfuscation

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You might've gotten a lucky roll haha, I'm currently adding more prominent community members (thanks, dang!) that should make it harder to guess. Thanks for playing though :)

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Yup! It's a game.

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Thanks for the kind words! :)

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updated with a opening paragraph to reduce confusion, thanks! :)

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Comments have brought up great points: that the commonly accepted definition of cargo-cult thinking is different from "holding unfalsifiable beliefs".

They are correct! But the reason I talk about cargo-cults is because people know what they are, and for the same reasons as Feynman in this speech: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

He brought up cargo cults as a way to illustrate improper scientific thinking — because the core driver of cargo-cult thinking is unfalsifiable beliefs. I appreciate the sharp reading and will be more explicit next time.

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Submissions

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Mental Gymnastics to Cope with Failure

Augmenting long-term memory (2018)

Destruction and Creation [pdf]

Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

Marine Corps Warfighting Manual [pdf]

Probabilistic Models of Cognition

Show HN: Weekly newsletter with top Hacker News posts and jobs, free forever

Show HN: This tool helps you stay excited while achieving ambitious goals

Better poker players make better hedge fund managers [pdf]

Statistical Rethinking with PyTorch and Pyro

A Discourse on Winning and Losing [pdf]

Richard Nixon on the Purpose of Life [video]

Manias and Mimesis: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles (2019)

A practical way to detect cargo-cult thinking

Why do Ivy League students self-sabotage?

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