Comment by minimaxir
9 hours ago
Because it leads to poor and nonconstructive discourse that doesn't educate anyone about the implications of the tech, which is expected on social media but has annoyingly leaked to Hacker News.
There's been more than enough drive-by comments from new accounts/green names even in this HN submission alone.
It does lead to poor non-constructive discourse. That's why we keep calling those CEOs to task on it. Why are you not?
The CEOs aren't here in the comments.
Which is why we ought to always bring up their BS every time people try to pretend it didn't happen.
The promises made are ABSOLUTELY relevant to how promising or not these experiments are.
It's not just social media, it's IRL too.
Maybe the general population will be willing to have a more constructive discussions about this tech once the trillion dollar companies stop pillaging everything they see in front of them and cease acting like sociopaths whose only objectives seem to be concentrating power, generating dissidence and harvesting wealth.