alt Hacker NewsIt is really sad and unfortunate that coding has started falling under the omnicause. Low-denominator discourse is invading every space I find interesting and it is difficult to avoid.
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I am having to blacklist a lot of commenters on this site because they are providing misinformation unnecessarily. There's all this garbage about "big flashy announcements" and so on when all the posts are by random people observing an internal detail of an open-source program's VCS or whatever.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680 (seems like just a normal user - enthusiast at best)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488 (this one seems suspicious - 2 year old user with this being their only submission ever and they have zero comments - anthropic could have submarined it but it's not a big flashy announcement)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150900 (this thread - user is anti-AI and anti-datacenter)
But definitely the one thing these things aren't are big flashy announcement. To be honest, this kind of post-truth environment where people just make up things about people they don't like are super-lame. I've generally been able to deal with it by kill-filing people who post falsehoods but the number of users who do is getting so extraordinarily large I am starting to believe that I need to auto-hide anyone who created an account in the last 10 years.
I agree. I'm as skeptical as many commenters but I also think the degree of polarization in HN around this technology and the degree to which people are calling those with different views shills or naysayers is pretty sad.