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There are already protocols to control search results and the behaviors of employees. This is very different. This is controlling the discourse of everyday peop

There are already protocols to control search results and the behaviors of employees. This is very different. This is controlling the discourse of everyday people. Just because the technology is not currently deployed to restrict topics that effect you does not mean that it never will. The post above is right. Extremism does not fester in “safe spaces”. One day you may not be able to even talk about <redacted>

magicalist 6y ago
> This is controlling the discourse of everyday people. I think you might be confused about the subject here.
- TheUndead96 6y ago
  Just responding to conversation above. I think this is important. What makes the HN interesting is sharing ideas. This is otherwise a boring corporate announcement.
  - magicalist 6y ago
    The "conversation above" was > Because that's what GPT-3 is used for not "the discourse of everyday people" > What makes the HN interesting is sharing ideas Which at least occasionally have to be new ideas. If every conversation ends up on free speech absolutism, even when there literally isn't a person generating the speech, there aren't any new ideas being shared.
hirundo 6y ago
> Extremism does not fester in “safe spaces”. Disagree. "Safe spaces" are bubbles of like-thinkers, else they wouldn't be "safe". People in such bubbles tend to drift to extremes due to the lack of external constraint. Within the bubble any other opinions seem extreme.
- TheUndead96 6y ago
  Yes, I agree. My point (and that of one of the comments earlier) is that censorship does not actually do anything to reduce extremism in the real world, and can actually increase it, as you say. So these echo-chambers are bad, which we can agree on.
Voloskaya 6y ago
> "This is very different. This is controlling the discourse of everyday people." GPT-3 is not an "everyday people", we don't have sentient AI and laws making robots defacto people just quite yet

magicalist 6y ago

> This is controlling the discourse of everyday people. I think you might be confused about the subject here.

TheUndead96 6y ago
Just responding to conversation above. I think this is important. What makes the HN interesting is sharing ideas. This is otherwise a boring corporate announcement.
- magicalist 6y ago
  The "conversation above" was > Because that's what GPT-3 is used for not "the discourse of everyday people" > What makes the HN interesting is sharing ideas Which at least occasionally have to be new ideas. If every conversation ends up on free speech absolutism, even when there literally isn't a person generating the speech, there aren't any new ideas being shared.

hirundo 6y ago

> Extremism does not fester in “safe spaces”. Disagree. "Safe spaces" are bubbles of like-thinkers, else they wouldn't be "safe". People in such bubbles tend to drift to extremes due to the lack of external constraint. Within the bubble any other opinions seem extreme.

TheUndead96 6y ago
Yes, I agree. My point (and that of one of the comments earlier) is that censorship does not actually do anything to reduce extremism in the real world, and can actually increase it, as you say. So these echo-chambers are bad, which we can agree on.

Voloskaya 6y ago

> "This is very different. This is controlling the discourse of everyday people." GPT-3 is not an "everyday people", we don't have sentient AI and laws making robots defacto people just quite yet