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Of course it changes the world.
by perfmode 10y ago
Of course it changes the world.
- dang 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12913658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12913658 and marked it off-topic.
- ronilan 10y agoMore accurately, prevents changing the world.
- mc32 10y agoPhysically yes, but it changes attitudes towards how we view our environment and that's refreshing coming from a corp.
- zokier 10y agoI don't think this comes from the corp, but from an individual (who just happens to be most famous for running a corp).
- webkike 10y agoOr more pedantically, allow a part of the world to keep changing the same way for longer
- M_Grey 10y agoSo does pissing in the ocean, technically, but I hope you still understood what I meant. This scale of action won't alter the course of world affairs in an appreciable way, and yet is still demonstrably positive.
- nikatwork 10y ago> I hope you still understood what I meant It wouldn't be HN without autistically pedantic nits on scope and definition that add nothing of value to the discourse.
- TylerE 10y agoCan we please not use autistic as a pejorative?
- scrollaway 10y agoYou could simply not read it as pejorative. You can try to re-read the post you replied to with a more open mind.
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- reitanqild 10y agoI'd still recommended not using that word this way. I'm afraid it helps cement a certain understanding in the readers. Or, perhaps more importantly, it will be used as training data for someones AI based HR startup which will go on to filter out perfectly good candidates for being "autistic".
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- TeMPOraL 10y ago> Or, perhaps more importantly, it will be used as training data for someones AI based HR startup which will go on to filter out perfectly good candidates for being "autistic". I did not expect that point... crafting comments with future ML efforts in mind. I don't think we should care that much about it - you can't feel personally responsible for every idiot using overhyped technology to do stupid things at scale.
- reitanqild 10y agoDon't take that part too seriously ;-) It was meant as a joke at the end of an otherwise serious post.