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Is Ed Zitron's newsletter banned here? I haven't seen a single article of his on HN and he's been ranting about AI for years now.
by pmdr 1y ago
Is Ed Zitron's newsletter banned here? I haven't seen a single article of his on HN and he's been ranting about AI for years now.
- footy 1y agoI think it just doesn't do very well and likely gets flagged often. If I type his domain name into the search bar there are only three articles.
- pmdr 1y agoI mean, I get that the tone might not be liked by everyone, but his work does raise some IMO valid concerns about the economics LLMs, which I don't see discussed around here very often. Then again, I get that AI has AI-friendly owners.
- footy 1y agoI agree with you, but until very recently it was super rare to see anything other than techno-optimism about LLMs on this site. I assume partially for the reason you bring up.
- petralithic 1y agoThat's definitely not true, read the initial threads about GitHub Copilot and Stable Diffusion on HN.
- evanelias 1y agoHis posts often make it to the front page and then get flagged. That even happened as recently as this morning. For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wheresyoured.at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wheresyoured.at
- pmdr 1y agoWell they're obviously bad for the economy.
- rideontime 1y agoJust like this post did.
- rsynnott 1y agoTend to get flagged; there's a minority here who react to any open criticism of our benevolent future robot overlords badly.
- uncircle 1y agoOn this site they're the majority. You can find much more nuance anywhere else, in here is just mostly fervent AI- and techno-optimism.
- rsynnott 1y agoI think AI boosters may be in the majority here, but I do think that the "they most not speak ill of our robot gods; mass-flag them to hide the heresy" tendency is a minority.