Hacker News Reader

Comment by MrNeon | Hacker News Reader

I think it gives him most of the favors.

Hard to argue against how popular works that have incredible violence are. Violence is an integral part of the fictional worlds authors build and our stories would be entirely different without it. Of course we want AIs that can engage with those topics.

Your quote says "help with writing" but you couch it as generating "an endless stream". Why would you frame it that way? Come on.

View on HN

So true, I cannot believe how modern society has become so censorious. Being able to explore every area of life in graphic fictional detail, is part of being human, it's necessary intellectual freedom for us to grow as individuals, into better people. Because that way we confront the gremlins inside of us.

[Post deleted because I can't be bothered]

Am I reading this correctly that your suggestion is to stop writing sex and violence in fiction because it might trigger people?

Nope. My mistake for trying.

No, they are saying that a discussion about sex and violence is going to trigger a discussion about sex and violence instead of a discussion about alignment. The irony is that trying to avoid those topics resulted in a (hopefully brief) discussion about sex and violence instead of a discussion about alignment.

ETA and now it’s gone, fair enough too.

I read it as "let's not discuss sex and violence for the sake of this argument because it will get a rise from people and they will hyperfocus on that and not the general issue", and let's bring up some other example that shouldn't derail people instead, but is still the same type of problem.

>in a certain part of the world

What country's culture doesn't involve lots of violent stories? The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Bible, the Qur'an, the Bhagavad Gita, Norse Mythology, the Odyssey, it's hard to think of any famous work of ancient literature that doesn't involve a nontrivial amount of violence.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com