> This comes off as childish to me and makes me think that I'd rather not contribute to the project.
It's unfortunately the new normal, with FFmpeg's core team acting similarly. No doubt the result of what is considered socially acceptable expanding in ways it probably shouldn't.
that is a view many hold, until its their own time being wasted. Consider the responsibility these people have and take on their shoulders, only for a bunch of idiots to consider their AI slop worthy of pissing up and down their face. Most of them probably even know its just AI slop spraying spree
But it's a game of whackamole really, and already I'm sure I'm reading and engaging with some double-digit percentage of entirely AI-written text without realising it.
> There’s a clear pattern to items that get flagged (those that are critical of right wing causes in particular, Musk, DOGE, ICE etc)
Have you considered that it could be that left wingers are more likely to submit political posts on a technology forum rather than right wingers only flagging left wing posts?
Your faulty assumption is that any criticism of DOGE, ICE etc is automatically “left wing”. Not true.
My point is not a left vs right one, it’s that topics like DOGE are worthy of discussion on HN. They are absolutely tech relevant. Many other topics with a tech angle are left up, but those are not. It’s not difficult to see why.
It's very cult like and no doubt a result of people unconsciously (or not) absorbing the endless spam of Bluesky screenshots (that always follow the mindless catchphrase/black and white logic pattern) you see on every other popular "social media" platform.
Who are you to say LLMs have never provided value to the user? I last used an agent earlier today and it finished a job that would've taken me a lot longer to complete without assistance.
I suggest everybody here take a look at Matthew White's excellent WikiWatch. Despite the last entry being 2006, it is still a very valuable criticism of Wikipedia today.
I often find myself clicking a link that takes me to an anchor on another page that no longer exists. Surely a system could be implemented to remove these?
> The amount of comments about white superiority/inferiority with no awareness of how absurd it is...
I haven't seen any. Could you give me an example?
> Is this site now a nazi bar? Damn.
Please don't turn Hacker News into a site for endlessly regurgitating lame social media "gotchas" or tropes. There are already many, many websites for that.
When I made that comment. This article had only 5 comment threads. And three of them talked about how "it's okay to be white " and superiority. All dead now just like my comment .
If you make a claim based on the supposed existence of something, be prepared to back the existence of said thing up. It's not "sealioning"[1][2] to want evidence for an extraordinary claim.
[1] Sealioning is an example of an blanket phrase that can rarely be applied correctly but more often that not is used by anti-intellectuals who have no other method to refute a statement or inquiry to their line of thought. Other examples being "whataboutism" (for the act of pointing out hypocrisy) and "slippery slope fallacy" (which is used to ridicule logical cause and effect statements)
[2] I find it humorous that the example given is of somebody prejudiced against an entire species for no logical reason (and who wants said species eradicated), who then refuses to justify it to the creature they are prejudiced against.
It almost feels as if the comic was originally written to justify racism and the author then realised how unpopular that would be. (The author attempts to refute this in an addendum but ends up using many words to say nothing, instead refuting a criticism of the character's visual design.)
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