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Elon Musk has publicly spoken at length about his ongoing struggle with the “woke” crowd

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-wading-into-p...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2021/12/22/elo...

https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/elon-musk-says-woke-progressiv...

And has publicly voiced his support for a language model that supports his political views

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-mus...

Now that this comment thread has been flagged because I said LMAO, has the quality of discussion about the future of LLMs been improved by suppressing publicly-available posts by one of the most influential figures in AI?

How is strictly policing tone to the extent of suppressing actual information useful here?

Like seriously, “criticizing a billionaire that’s very public about using technology to further his ideological goals is the same thing as using technology to further your ideological goals is genuinely funny. Like ROFLMAO funny. “Everyone is equivalent to Elon Musk, even in the context of discussing the future of LLMs.” Is a cartoonish rule that serves no purpose whatsoever aside from quelling legitimate criticism.

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I'm not arguing with you about Elon Musk or any of the underlying topics. I'm saying that your account has been breaking the site guidelines by posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait.

Those things create and fuel flamewars, which is destructive of everything we're trying for HN to be. We want a place on the internet that doesn't inexorably burn itself to a crisp. Since that's the direction of internet entropy, we expend a lot of energy trying to go the other way. We need users like you to help with that, and when accounts don't help with that and instead continue to post destructively, we have to ban them, regardless of their ideological orientation or political positions.

I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please take the intended spirit of the site more to heart, I'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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I am legitimately confused here.

If my comment hadn’t started with “LMAO” and had the current spelling of “Elon”, would it still have had the replies locked?

My criticism of six months being too short to achieve AI safety was in fact substantive. As was my quote on the LLM work that he is presently funding. That leaves only tone being the issue.

My comment is locked. Other posters can not have any dialogue with me in relation to the salient points I made. The links to further reading are buried below your admonishment, so they’re less likely to trigger any discussion.

I’m not really motivated to post again because it’s not clear if my post was not “substantive”, what qualifies as “flame bait” (for example, is directly quoting his words about “wokeness” flame bait even when they are directly about the topic at hand?), or if the issue here is “My account” as you put it.

So which is it? Flame bait, empty posting, or you just don’t like the way I post in general? You’ve provided all three as reasons for not allowing further discussion of my post.