Posted by BloondAndDoom 1 day ago
Perhaps you don't owe AI tycoons whose names start with A better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
Are we allowed, for example, to call Trump an insecure man with orange skin and tiny hands? Is that a violation of our allowed speech?
That's bad, and I'd like to see links to those.
> Why are you showing up now?
If you mean why do I respond to post A but not B, the answer is usually that I saw A but didn't see B. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted to HN—there's far too much. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
> Are we allowed, for example, to call Trump an insecure man with orange skin and tiny hands?
That's certainly a cliché, and it's hard to see how repetition of tropes fits with the intellectual curiosity that we're optimizing for (or rather, trying to! - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). As I've said in the past, curiosity withers under repetition and fries under indignation (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
I think, though, that the issue with a political cliché is rather different than posting that someone "doesn't look human".
The people who:
> steal any bit of code you put on the internet regardless of the license you use or its terms, then use it to train their models, then turn around and try to sell it to you
> made it so you can't afford new, more powerful computers or smartphones anymore, or perhaps even just replacements for the ones you already have, thanks to massive GPU, DRAM, SSD, and now even HDD shortages
> flood the internet with artificial, superficial content
> aggressively DDoS your website
Real pillars of society.