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1. This election will play a big part in what regulation is imposed on AI. The Democrats are more in favor of ethical and privacy limits on AI. The Republicans see AI as a crucial technology for the US to maintain military superiority and want to see a pretty much anything goes approach to get there.
2. There are similar large differences in how the parties approach privacy in general.
3. One of the common areas of technology discussed on HN is EVs. One party wants to encourage adoption of EVs. The other wants to discourage that--their VP candidate says EVs are a scam wants to cancel EV tax credits and give a $7500 tax credit for purchasing ICE vehicles.
4. They are also very far apart on areas of business law that massively affect technology companies, such as antitrust.
Dang said as much in the mega thread[0]
The moderators can flag, delete or promote posts as they seem fit, without any transparency.
And of course there are some users that have the flag button which is a super-downvote button (more like downvote and remove).
The community has some input, true, but not as much as on reddit, definitely not as much as on 4chan.
Please re-read this sub-thread.
Note, most. Not all. Big stories such as these are, I'd say, on-topic.
Who's arguing with you?
That nuance was lost on you then. And my nuance about general politics was lost on you, also. Existence of exceptions is implied in my comment.
Your comment doesn't follow at all.
Other commenters replied to the same parent, challenging their claim.
Emphasis mine. This is not a “general politics” story and almost certainly qualifies as an “interesting new phenomenon”.
Who's arguing that it is?
>And you stated that general politics are not allowed under the submissions policy.
It's what the policy says. There's on-topic and off-topic with exceptions. Blanket statements about what "good hackers find interesting" is a partial representation of the policy.
> I’m pointing out that this is far from general.
Going back to you NOT answering my question, I'm not saying this is "general" either.
Obviously, you didn't read the whole thread.
Generally discussion works best around here when each participant only has to explain their own points. If people have to explain your own points to you it makes discussion kind of hard.
Explaining that the HN Guidelines has off-topic railings (with exceptions) too isn't saying that a tweet about POTUS resigning isn't a valid exception.
I guess people are on tilt because of the announcement.