Comment by concordDance
1 year ago
Here's my attempt at a substantive and low flame bait comment on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38680523
I'd be interested in whether this meets the bar but once again you've got 5 million other users to see to so if you don't have the time you don't have the time.
"Just asking questions" isn't a low-flamebait strategy for that material. Worse, your account is giving the impression of mostly being interested in promoting it, and that's not an ok use of HN, so please stop.
Meta: confused, upset
INFO: I've gone through my last 200 comments on HN[1] trying to figure out what it is I'm trying to promote. Other than the last few comments it seems to be heavily AI and Musk related with nothing related to Nazis, Eugenics or other such things.
I've also done full history searches for various things that could be the "it" you refer to, but my HBD discussion was about three years and several thousand comments ago and I have only a few posts that mention "eugenics" and they're all about word meanings, so I think you are referring to my repeated attempts to lecture people on meanings of words (trying to teach clear thinking about word definitions and ideally teaching people about why Tabooing words[2] is an important rationality technique). But while they are admittedly quite common, they actually seem to get almost no engagement and would be quite ineffective flame bait.
I will still stop as that's what you want though. :(
[1] Up to here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=20&prefix=false&q...
[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBdvyyHLdxZSAMmoz/taboo-your...
You've got:
What if eugenics was ok, actually? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38680523
What if race science wasn't a cause for the Holocaust? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38674998
What if LLMs included more race science? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38376438
What if white supremacists weren't so bad? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36068057
What if people of African descent were actually dumber than other people? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34835306
That's just in the last few months, it just keeps on going with 'What if we didn't call people with Nazijacent ideologies Nazis' and so forth. Just cut it out.
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