But overreacting to it is even worse. What if this guy's career or at least his public perception gets derailed by a dirt-seeking public in some stupid scandal. What a tragic, horrible loss that would be to the rest of us.
This man needs to be given a clear road ahead to keep innovating. We need more of people like him, people who not only have lofty, humane goals but have the will to make them a reality.
If this guy wants to swim in pools of LSD on the weekends who cares? It's no one's business but his own.
What about Feynman and pot? My Mom has never smoked pot, she didn't come up with quantum electrodynamics either.
Who's overreacting? I think my reaction was very proportional.
Humor doesn't always translate well to text, so I simply wanted a clarification. It's bad manner to accuse someone of being a coke-head in public without any clear indication that it's a joke, whoever that person is (you, me, Elon Musk).
We can think all we want that nobody should care, but we have to live with the world as it is (until we can change it, anyway), and there are many evo. psych. reasons why people care about that kind of stuff.
Well I did understand that he was making a joke, but I'd rather we kept jokes like that away from HackerNews as long as we possibly can, until we turn into yet another Reddit or Digg.
But overreacting to it is even worse. What if this guy's career or at least his public perception gets derailed by a dirt-seeking public in some stupid scandal. What a tragic, horrible loss that would be to the rest of us.
This man needs to be given a clear road ahead to keep innovating. We need more of people like him, people who not only have lofty, humane goals but have the will to make them a reality.
If this guy wants to swim in pools of LSD on the weekends who cares? It's no one's business but his own.
What about Feynman and pot? My Mom has never smoked pot, she didn't come up with quantum electrodynamics either.