The HN forum's population is now very different to what it was at the start. I'm convinced people like Paul Graham would get crucified. There is a conformity -

The HN forum's population is now very different to what it was at the start. I'm convinced people like Paul Graham would get crucified. There is a conformity - I don't want to label it leftist - it leans there at the moment but it will go the other way in future. It is not anybody in Silicon Valley's job to moderate the population's speech - that our governments did not produce a public space for the online world was a strategic error. I suppose we could just take the China route but no amount of machine learning is going to stop Americans telling the other side to fuck off - that is a feature and not a bug.