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Politics and tech are more intertwined than ever, as the GPT 5.6 case demonstrates. You can't avoid it.
by minimaxir 4mo ago
Politics and tech are more intertwined than ever, as the GPT 5.6 case demonstrates. You can't avoid it.
- phyzix5761 4mo agoI understand that but we're getting a lot of non-tech related political posts lately.
- bediger4000 4mo agoThere's something to be said for keeping tech oligarchs out of politics as well, no?
- rolph 4mo agoi think keeping tech out of politics may be easier than keeping politics out of tech.
- gjvc 4mo agodon't end sentences with "no?"
- bediger4000 4mo agoNot only did you fail to capitalize the first word of your sentence, you ended it with "no?". You, sir, are the charlatan in this scenario. Good day.
- ThrowawayR2 4mo agoYou have the ability to flag submissions that are off-topic and downvote postings that are off-topic as defined by the HN guidelines linked at the bottom of the page. Use them (in a non-partisan, fair way) to help shape HN into the HN you want to see.
- vlian2088 4mo agoI want you to imagine how nauseating the Internet would've been to you if everywhere you went you encountered evangelical Christians preaching. "God and ... are more intertwined than ever, as the ... case demonstrates," blah blah blah. or, alternatively, imagine if Indians (18% of the world's population) were as passionate about politics as Americans (4%) are, and you had to endure constant shit slinging between rabid supporters and opponents of all the innumerable political factions of the world's largest democracy. that's how the rest of us feels about the current thing being shoved in our faces by "everything is political" activists everywhere we go.
- bigyabai 4mo agoNeither of those metaphors line up, really. America's outsized impact on the global economy, security and technology landscape is not proportional to it's population. The relationship between political endeavors and technology are purely secular and material, we wouldn't have things like EUVL or SAR without DARPA paving the way for political objectives. Much like religion or the Indian Prime Minister, you don't have to discuss the American hegemony if you don't want to. But it does exist, and the burden of proof falls on you to explain how these things aren't important topics.