>Its hilarious watching a group of some of the smartest people on the planet still not getting it, over and over. It just sails right under their heads :-)
The hubris displayed in thinking that HN is "a group of some of the smartest people on the planet" is revolting.
If anybody took it as an insult, I apologize. It was not meant that way at all.
It was meant to be ironic. The reason they didn't get the artwork wasn't because they were dumb, it was because they were smart. Kind of like how Goedel's technique works on the strengths of a formal system, not its weaknesses.
It's easy to outsmart yourself, and I've fallen into this trap more than anybody else. For example, it's harder to debug code than write code, so if you write the cleverest code you can, you won't be able to debug it.
I can't tell you how many times I've had to replace code I wrote, which so slickly used the latest C++ feature, or was so "elegantly" written, with the dumbest, dorkiest code possible which would solve the problem, just so I could actually deliver a robust and bug-free solution.
This particular artwork so elegantly captures the moral of this story, and in a very visually appealing way.
The hubris displayed in thinking that HN is "a group of some of the smartest people on the planet" is revolting.