Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

[flagged]



Actually, you've made my point quite clearly. The fact that you think you know the answer without a doubt, and that I am refusing to acknowledge it due to political reasons, is exactly why we won't know the truth.

If you were to step back and evaluate the possibilities rationally, acknowledge the evidence you do and do not have, and ask how well your heuristics are calibrated to this domain, you would see that not only do you not have any real answers to this question, but that you are as fundamentally incapable of adding meaningful value to the conversation as a biologist is to a deep cybersecurity investigation.


Too long, didn't read and don't really care.

Dewokenization is coming to town.


No greater horror has ever been dispensed upon the martyrs of truth but a downwards pointed thumb


> without fear of downvotes

That this even exists is a fundamental part of the problem.


Participants here are afraid of losing "points" and care about "winning" points.

So you end up increasing the bias towards what gets you points rather than frank conversations based on a bigger array of facts than just the convenient facts.

Corona made this painfully visible. With facebook and others only admitting 4 years later that they completely muffed the other side of the conversations with downvotings, shadowbanning, suspending accounts when those voices had a perfectly valid reason to argue and question the official narrative.

The funny thing is that 99% of the users here will look with disdain to the burnings on public squares, but they behave exactly that way in a digital format today.

We won't change that system since it is human nature, but at least it will be recorded in history that some humans we're trying to revert that situation.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: