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Parent commenter didn't say anything about you personally. They disagreed with you, yes, but that's not an insult.

So I can say "that is wildly unhinged" but I can't say "you are wildly unhinged"?

You understand that's pedantic, right?

But ok, noted: must be pedantic on HN. Do not use second person.

EDIT: SHIT! My bad. I meant to say: "I wonder if the person I am speaking to understands that's pedantic."

I don’t know what spectrum you’re on, but attacking an argument and attacking a person are two wildly different things. There’s nothing pedantic about that.

What insult?

Implying I'm being naive.

I apologize, but I don't find the syntactic rules of this site to be well thought out. "Your comments are stupid" and "You are stupid" carry the same meaning.

No they do not. Smart people are in no way immune to making naive, ignorant, or not-well-thought-out arguments.

Also, if you feel that someone attacks you personally, responding in kind can only ever make you look like an idiot.

WHOAH that is a myopic statement. It sounds like the legalistic argument an autistic person would make.

> responding in kind can only ever make you look like an idiot.

LOL. I'm so glad you didn't just insult me there. I think it would make you look like an idiot, by your own reasoning... no?

Oh, you can, no problem. But you’re also wrong, and getting downvoted because of it.

I'm wrong for pointing out that this entire line of thought - AI companies are trying to shirk blame by pinning it on their software - is unhinged?

No friend, I am not. It is hysterics pure and simple.

A few excerpts from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html worth a careful re-read:

> In Comments

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Why are you replying on this comment?

As near as I can tell, I was in fact right. I just didn't follow the laws of HN communication to express it, on a thread where the person I replied to didn't follow it either.

It would have been more appropriate to pile on with the others above.

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