That may have been me?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9910380" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9910380</a><p><i>Why? Your peer group literally gets arbitrary code execution on your brain. (It&#x27;s a flaw in MonkeyBrainOS 1.01 which we haven&#x27;t patched yet.) You&#x27;ll tend to find yourself valuing what they value. You will tend to find yourself achieving outcomes strikingly similar to their outcomes.<p>Given this, picking a peer group whose values are not your values and whose outcomes are terrible is a poor choice.</i>