We aren't a community. Please stop this constant attempt to create tribes and then (presumably) become the tribe's representative. We are individuals with different opinions. The individuals on HN are more amenable to reason than the average discussion; persuade them into a way of thinking.
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.
HN def is a community, in some sense of the word, but I also dont like the phrasing and emphasis on "we" having done something or we having a problem and whatnot.
HN promotes debate and individual opinions, so statements like in parent just have bad connotations to them.
> dont like the phrasing and emphasis on "we" having done something
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.)
> I did not intend to imply that Sam Altman is HN’s problem to solve.
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
We are definitely a community. Sadly, "community" has little meaning in he modern day compared to 30+ years ago. I'm in a neighborhood but I don't feel a sense of "community" with most of them. I have a job but don't have a sense of "community" with most of my coworkers.
I feel as if this is a community. I certainly participate in it, as if it was, and that I have certain personal Responsibilities, as a member of that community.
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.
