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0 pointsraffael_de2mo ago0 comments

Wouldn't it maybe be a great idea to just ban anything that's not actually about science and technology from this board? This will have the indirect effect of people leaving it who are here for political trench fights? Plus the good old flame wars about technology x versus y are pretty harmless in comparison.

(And no, just because Sam Altman is CEO of tech company doesn't make this news tech news.)

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foxes2mo ago

Tech and science are political .. they don't exist in some sort of vacuum.

Further being "apolotical" means supporting the current status quo.

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bob10292mo ago

I think a proper OpenAI vs Anthropic flame war might actually do this community some good. Let's just have it out. Avoiding violation of the x vs y technology rule seems to have resulted in a lot of pent up energy. I don't see the harm at this point if dang is saying it's over.

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tptacek2mo ago

HN isn't a "science and technology" site.

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