3 ms·

i posted the headline and first paragraph of https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-x-will-strip-ability-block-accounts-2023-08-19/ https://www.reute

by zzzeek 3y ago

i posted the headline and first paragraph of https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-x-will-strip-ability-block-accounts-2023-08-19/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-x-will-str.... Every response listed was a generic, negative response, like "this seems a terrible idea". I was hoping for at least one or two "people just dont understand Musk's genius / that's what mute is for" responses. So this didn't really for me capture the special "flavor" of Hacker News, which is that no matter how awful something is, there's always a solid nut of "this is actually a good thing" contrarians ready on the mark.

calderknight 3y ago
Hard to judge without knowing why he's doing it.
- zzzeek 3y ago
  Exactly my point! It's a given that Musk is a Genius and everything he does can only be looked at through the lens of "hmm WHY is he doing this? How CAN we know?". If we assumed something crazy ...like, he's a pathetic man baby leader of the incels with no self control over his insatiable, thin skinned vindictiveness, no matter how embarrassing, well, we have no data at all to know anything like that do we.... No he must be brilliant and we simply must wait until he reveals his genius on this one.
  - calderknight 3y ago
    Whether he's a genius or not - or a leader of the incels - it seems like the standard ways of evaluating decisions should apply to him. It's strange to evaluate a decision before considering the motivation behind the decision.
    - zzzeek 3y ago
      I agree entirely, why decide what's happening based on our own eyes, we just dont know!
      - calderknight 3y ago
        Yeah, after all, thinking about things rationally rather than jumping to conclusions is a good habit for people who value the truth highly.
jusquan 3y ago
Thanks for trying it out! You're right—one thing you can almost always count on in any sort of shared forum are the inevitable contrarians, and it's one of the magical parts of social simulation we're hoping to capture more of, hopefully by mapping fakeHN's simulated users to this history of real, opinionated, and biased HN commenters.

by zzzeek 3y ago

calderknight 3y ago

Hard to judge without knowing why he's doing it.

zzzeek 3y ago
Exactly my point! It's a given that Musk is a Genius and everything he does can only be looked at through the lens of "hmm WHY is he doing this? How CAN we know?". If we assumed something crazy ...like, he's a pathetic man baby leader of the incels with no self control over his insatiable, thin skinned vindictiveness, no matter how embarrassing, well, we have no data at all to know anything like that do we.... No he must be brilliant and we simply must wait until he reveals his genius on this one.
- calderknight 3y ago
  Whether he's a genius or not - or a leader of the incels - it seems like the standard ways of evaluating decisions should apply to him. It's strange to evaluate a decision before considering the motivation behind the decision.
  - zzzeek 3y ago
    I agree entirely, why decide what's happening based on our own eyes, we just dont know!
    - calderknight 3y ago
      Yeah, after all, thinking about things rationally rather than jumping to conclusions is a good habit for people who value the truth highly.

jusquan 3y ago

Thanks for trying it out! You're right—one thing you can almost always count on in any sort of shared forum are the inevitable contrarians, and it's one of the magical parts of social simulation we're hoping to capture more of, hopefully by mapping fakeHN's simulated users to this history of real, opinionated, and biased HN commenters.