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The alarming trend should be how even a slightly contrarian point of view is downvoted to oblivion, and that newer members of the community expect it to work th
by primitivesuave 2y ago
The alarming trend should be how even a slightly contrarian point of view is downvoted to oblivion, and that newer members of the community expect it to work that way.
- dannersy 2y agoI don't think it's the contrarian part that I have a problem with.
- primitivesuave 2y agoHN is a place for intellectual curiosity. For over a decade I have seen great minds respectfully debate their point of view on this forum. In this particular case, I would have been genuinely interested to learn why exactly the original comment is advocating for a "race to the bottom" - in fact, there is a sibling comment to yours which makes a cogent argument without personally attacking the original commenter. Instead, you devoted 2/3 of your comment toward berating the OP as being responsible for your perception of HN's decline.
- dannersy 2y agoI find it strange you took such a measured stance on my comment yet gave the OP a pass, despite it being far more "berating" than mine. As for a race to the bottom, it's as simple as embracing and unleashing AI despite its lack of quality or ability to produce a product worth anything. But since it's a force multiplier and cheaper (for the user at least, all these AI companies are operating at a loss, see Goldman and JP Morgan's report on the matter), therefore it is "good" and we need to pick ourselves up by our bootstraps; which in this context, I'm not entirely sure what that means.