kadenwolff

I feel like a lot of the criticisms made here could be goal-factored out. I think Caplan would agree with them. But I think a lot of the things that are suggested would be missed out on (teaching conformity, peer groups, etc) could be replaced by significantly better alternatives than schooling.

The title of this post sounds like an advertisement for a cult

This isn't exactly true, it's relatively common to see HN-user created games on the front-page. I think you're engaging in typical-mind; while this community is a space for nerds, not everyone here is interested in video games. The shared interest here is for "hacking", computer science, and computer software. I wouldn't even say the forum is necessarily business oriented, despite the association with Y-Combinator. It's simply that, because of the incentives, there is a lot of interesting software and research that comes from the private sector.

This is a really, really bad idea

This goes into my "top ten post titles before AI kills us all"

Same

This is ridiculous and has been a cascade of awful precedents for the Internet. This is legitimately an extremely bad sign of what's to come for the Internet's future.