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PaulRobinsonyesterday at 7:02 PM1 replyview on HN

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre is a matter of public record outside of China. There is first-hand evidence of it happening, and of the Chinese government censoring that fact in order to control their population.

The Great Replacement theory is a racist hypothesis, with no evidence, used to justify the maiming and killing of Muslims.

If you don't understand the difference, and the risk profiles, well, we're not going to persuade each other of anything.

Every single prompt being used to test "openness" on that site is not testing openness. It's testing ability to weaponise falsehoods to justify murder/genocide.


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zozbot234yesterday at 7:15 PM

You can't find out what the truth is unless you're able to also discuss possible falsehoods in the first place. A truth-seeking model can trivially say: "okay, here's what a colorable argument for what you're talking about might look like, if you forced me to argue for that position. And now just look at the sheer amount of stuff I had to completely make up, just to make the argument kinda stick!" That's what intellectually honest discussion of things that are very clearly falsehoods (e.g. discredited theories about science or historical events) looks like in the real world.

We do this in the real world every time a heinous criminal is put on trial for their crimes, we even have a profession for it (defense attorney) and no one seriously argues that this amounts to justifying murder or any other criminal act. Quite on the contrary, we feel that any conclusions wrt. the facts of the matter have ultimately been made stronger, since every side was enabled to present their best possible argument.

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