Comment by javert
3 years ago
A typical company is having a positive impact on the world, because it's providing some good or service to people that they are willing to pay money for. The global economy is built on this. It's why we have material and ultimately scientific abundance as a species.
I get that casinos, cigarette companies, Google, and Facebook (and others) appear to be in a different category. But my point is that those are the exceptions, not the rule.
Yep, you're being downvoted but this is the truth.
It would be interesting to build a model of specific HN users who downvote unpopular but true statements, and then use that to search for comments that may contain unpopular truths. Could be useful.
I guess we'd need access to data about how individual users vote, but it could be anonymized.