If HN is business of tech as well as tech of tech, politics might be too intertwined to ignore. Particularly if deployment and government oversight is involved. If you can’t get to market or if oversight makes it impossible to operate than your good idea is noise.
I come here to read what people I respect are saying about relevant political items - are we watching a 250-year-old republic die from 1000 premeditated cuts, or just a temporary trainwreck of incompetence? Or both? How much direct and collateral damage can the Republic withstand?
Will the "military-industrial complex" end up controlling civilian access to AI models? Seems like that just started. It is a 1st Amendment violation? Probably... But knowledge is power so maybe not.
If only politicians would stay out of tech business, and tech oligarchs would stay out of politics, and technology would stop changing the world...
At an abstract level, we are watching a very slow rules-based system attempt to defend and repair itself from internal corruption and external threats.
Tricky issue. Have some sympathy, know I post too much politicised content. Not convinced it's either healthy or possible to exclude it. Do accept its unhealthy and entirely too possible to get bound into nihilistic doom scrolling.
Tech bros own a lot of the capital investment surface in our space. Do we ignore the dark side?
If you have extremely sensitive needs like this it would be super easy for you to use an agent or something that can help shield your eyes.
It's super easy these days for you to get what you want, without having to impose a limited constrainted tiny world view on other people. You can just get what you want! It's easy.
So many topics important to people here are becoming politicized. I wonder how we can avoid it?
Do we regulate powerful ai models?
Is science under threat? (Through defunding, politicization of specific areas of study etc)
Do we build more data centers?
Does a war in the Middle East constrain supply chain and double the price of some commodities we all care about? (For that matter is building data centers doubling the cost of some other things we all care about)
These are some things with political ramifications. We care about them and the news is relevant to us.
But if the political news is getting to you, I do empathize. I’ve had to go on total news blackouts a few times and have severely moderated my behavior in response.
It would be like in Russia, they also did not care about politics. But when politics started caring about them, when they started being sent to frontlines, then maybe they figured out that it was a mistake to avoid being involved in politics.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 31.1 ms ] threadWill the "military-industrial complex" end up controlling civilian access to AI models? Seems like that just started. It is a 1st Amendment violation? Probably... But knowledge is power so maybe not.
If only politicians would stay out of tech business, and tech oligarchs would stay out of politics, and technology would stop changing the world...
At an abstract level, we are watching a very slow rules-based system attempt to defend and repair itself from internal corruption and external threats.
Tech bros own a lot of the capital investment surface in our space. Do we ignore the dark side?
It's super easy these days for you to get what you want, without having to impose a limited constrainted tiny world view on other people. You can just get what you want! It's easy.
Do we regulate powerful ai models?
Is science under threat? (Through defunding, politicization of specific areas of study etc)
Do we build more data centers?
Does a war in the Middle East constrain supply chain and double the price of some commodities we all care about? (For that matter is building data centers doubling the cost of some other things we all care about)
These are some things with political ramifications. We care about them and the news is relevant to us.
But if the political news is getting to you, I do empathize. I’ve had to go on total news blackouts a few times and have severely moderated my behavior in response.
Technology is always some component of those topics, but it's a very loose relationship. Tools are not the problem.