Indeed. The number of votes this has received is an amusing insight into how many people must upvote based on origin and not content. If this were published on some anonymous medium blog, it would be lucky to be +2.
So...you are agreeing with me that this has been upvoted based on origin and not content, and you're just repeating what I said to reinforce the point?
Origin and context give extra meaning and weight to content. That seems trivially true to me. If Paul Graham writes this then that means the topic is on the mind of someone influential and important in our community, thus it is worthy of scrutiny and thought, thus worthy of an upvote.
Hacker News is not some game where people compete to create content with maximum merit. It is a source of new content relevant to this community.
