Comment by CuriousRose
4 hours ago
You're right, I don't care and I certainly didn't ask for your political opinion or validation. This is a tech news website, not the place for your false and unrelated political tirades.
4 hours ago
You're right, I don't care and I certainly didn't ask for your political opinion or validation. This is a tech news website, not the place for your false and unrelated political tirades.
Flag those comments. They're very clearly violating the guidelines, which is exactly what the flag button is for.
Grok did ask its users what it thought about the right wing fever dream of genocide of white people in South Africa so its definitely relevant to one's consideration of the product.
Technology isn't apolitical. You can choose to ignore the politics if it helps you sleep at night, but Elon's got three-letter agencies reaching up his ass like he's a Sesame Street puppet.
> Technology isn't apolitical.
Irrelevant. HN is not the place to randomly inject flamewars about politics. It's explicitly against both the purpose and guidelines of HN.
Seems like you need to review the guidelines again, because they're pretty clear:
> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"randomly inject flamewars about politics"
Basic morality is not "flamewars" or "politics".
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I didn't miss anything. The parent that they can choose to ignore it forever, it's a perfectly valid option. It just won't disentangle tech from politics.
The fact that Elon Musk's companies take contracts from the CIA and NRO is not flamebait. It's context that informs how we evaluate future SpaceX ventures.
Musk also shut down USAID for absolutely no reason at all which will cause the deaths of hundred of thousands of the poorest people in the world. Not a good look for the richest person in the world. Musk also sounds like a complete moron when he tries to justify why he did it.
> absolutely no reason
We aren't responsible to fix your willful ignorance
You are extremely gullible.