Ah, there is a post with more detail about RE# and discussion here recently that I must have missed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206647
I keep being surprised by the magnitude of the disconnect between this place and the other circles of hell. I'd have thought the Venn diagram would have a lot more overlap.
Jack Dorsey's layoff message last month did the same thing.
Is it some kind of "Prove you're not an AI by purposely writing like an idiot" or something?