Comment by 1970-01-01
4 days ago
Because wisdom stems from burnt hands, and wisdom is extremely valuable. Positivity simply has a lower value to the reader. Maybe we should create good.news.ycombinator.com and see how much less interesting it becomes?
This is not the case.
Wisdom is in knowing what to do which works, which is finite. Wasting knowledge space on the infinite ways to be wrong is not nearly as helpful as it may seem.
I think Buffet said it best: "You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you do not do too many things wrong."