Well said. So many implications there, your title captures it though - separate the art from the artist. I'll try to remember that more. Heck. Might just stick a post it on the desk.

What artists? A better way to put this would be like, the guy who works at McDonald's is a rapist, so seperate the rapists from the burger or whatever. Writing code or making burgers isn't art, it's just a job.

Great food for thought. I would have appreciated more insights, and I think many others would share this belief

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Extreme on both counts. We're talking about people who are difficult and unpleasant to deal with, not assault. And we're also talking about genuine significant contributions, like Linux or Bitcoin, not tasks on the edge of being automated.

A quote from the article that resembles how I am feeling today about lots of bitcoiners. Quite some time ago I was horrified by the private behaviour of a hacker I deeply respected: malicious, hypocritical stuff. And it caused an internal crisis for me: I thought we were all striving together to make the world a better place. Here are the results I finally derived: 1. Being a great hacker does not imbue moral or ethical characteristics. 2. Being a great coder doesn't mean you're not a crackpot. 3. Working on a great project doesn't mean you share my motivations about it. View quoted note →