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The Klein effect strikes again! > I need to coin a term for this concept, I see it on every Hacker News thread once it reaches a certain size. It is the attrib
by coryfklein 8y ago
The Klein effect strikes again!
> I need to coin a term for this concept, I see it on every Hacker News thread once it reaches a certain size. It is the attribution of the topic to some nefarious intention of a dude in marketing. Once you start noticing it you can't unsee.
> Intel fires their CEO? It's a PR stunt.
> Startup abandons Europe due to GDPR? PR STUNT!
> AlphaZero beats professionals at Dota 2? You guessed it, it's just PR for oligarchy parent Alphabet.
> I see this so often now it's becoming humorous. As if some how this being all about PR explains everything. It doesn't explain anything! Although I'm sure Bill over in marketing loves that he has subsumed the historical role of deity in explaining the unknown.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499447
- CPLX 8y agoIndeed. Combine that with the HN tendency to assume literally every single story that runs in the press is a "submarine" story (also known as PR) that's essentially the same as an advertisement, and you have an impressive collective delusion that all of perceivable reality stems from the mind of a few ingenious communications professionals.
- lawrenceyan 8y agoThat was OpenAI who did the Dota 2 competition just as an FYI. AlphaZero is DeepMind created used for playing chess, shogi, and go with no affilitation to Dota 2 whatsoever.
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