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Was there an edit? I don't see any name-calling in GP.

• dang 4y ago
  "That singularity bullshit" and "that pseudoscientific nonsense" count as name-calling in the sense that https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html uses the term: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. 'That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3." (a bit more explanation if anyone cares: aggressive pejoratives tend to poison curious conversation and are easy to cut, so this isn't a hard one. I think mostly people write like that online because it's how many of us would talk in person with people we're friendly with—and there it's totally normal, because there's already a 'contract' that takes care of understanding each other's good intention. That's absent online, so many commenters are on a hair trigger with this kind of thing and will react in ways that take the conversation to less interesting, more conflictual places.)