A little transparency upfront would have probably helped. I see this sort of backlash on down weighted or flagged posts sometimes. There was a satirical codebas

A little transparency upfront would have probably helped. I see this sort of backlash on down weighted or flagged posts sometimes. There was a satirical codebase posted here implementing basic semantic search, with the implied joke being that few of the many vector database startups have any sort of strategic advantage or moat. Down weighting stuff like that seems like a clear conflict of interest. At the very least, a brief explanation would probably help. Hell even just a [down weighted] marker would prevent it from looking like a quick attempt to avoid dealing with criticism as a community and group. For what it’s worth, I work in deep learning and would have really appreciated discussions with the community here about what may be an inevitable backlash (given its premise of disrupting many professions). Silicon Valley leaders aren’t always known for having their finger on the pulse and this seemed like a good moment to have an early debate about that. In any case, thanks for following up with an explanation.