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Not that it's surprising, but it is unfortunate the highest slots are dominated by politics and other emotionally charged topics, with intellectually challengin
by jessriedel 10y ago
Not that it's surprising, but it is unfortunate the highest slots are dominated by politics and other emotionally charged topics, with intellectually challenging topics much further down.
- nerdponx 10y agoAre intellectually-challenging and emotionally-challenging mutually exclusive? In my experience they tend to coincide.
- jessriedel 10y agoAnticorrelated, especially regarding the actual intellectual engagement.
- new299 10y agoIt's great, because we should be more aware of the political and societal implications of technology. The top story, Apple's refusal to bend to the governments request to assist in compromising security on the iPhone, was hugely important. It's also interesting that Google/Facebook/Amazon have not made anything like the same commitment to user rights and privacy.
- jessriedel 10y ago> It's great, because we should be more aware of the political and societal implications of technology. As one can see in the guidelines, awareness-raising is not the purpose of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- new299 10y agoAll stories are about raising awareness... even if it's about awareness of a particular algorithm. As for if politics is on-topic or not? The mods didn't delete the threads, so I assume they were considered important enough, and on-topic enough not to be deleted. Personally I couldn't care less, creating and disseminating technology is already a political act.
- user5994461 10y agoPolitics and emotions have the largest audience. They'll always be able to get more votes than everything else.