Of course we are. That doesn’t coerce anyone into a groupthink, and it doesn’t mean everyone is a part of it. I’m simply asking anyone who held one opinion to find harmonics with another.
I read HN 10x more than reddit just because of this fact.
Why do you equate acknowledging a community with group think?
HN promotes debate and individual opinions, so statements like in parent just have bad connotations to them.
Fair enough. I cited two we’s.
In the first—where “we, as a community, have been critical of crypto”—I juxtapose this community at large’s scepticism of crypto with its giving the benefit of doubt to people similar to crypto’s worst in AI.
In the second—where “we have a wider problem”—I intended to reference Silicon Valley at large. I did not intend to imply that Sam Altman is HN’s problem to solve. (Though I welcome the help, if you have sway in D.C. or your state capital. I am not sure I have the bandwidth to take on a political project of this magnitude.)
In consideration that Sam Altman was the former president of YCombinator, and Hacker News is financed by this company, it would be true hacker spirit (as in Hacker News) to subvertingly use Hacker News to "solve" the Sam Altman problem. :-D
Fantastic to see someone calling it out as BS.
End users who are not "developers"/"tech bros" who read HN cannot possibly be part of this imaginary "we".
The world's a lot lonlier these days.
That does not mean that everyone is on the same page, though. Probably the only thing everyone agrees on, is that this is a valuable personal resource.
If this was groupthink, I'd go somewhere else. BTDT. Got the T-shirt.