fascists and racists do not welcome the spotlight (unless they’re already in an extremely powerful position from which to, subjectively, enjoy the attention), and our very good friends have recently become quite illuminated
Yeah, HN is a huge “community” and even if the site design tries to flatten it to some sort of homogeneous soup[1] there’s plenty of subcultures. The people who are interested in IQ, the danger of “woke” etc. tend to congregate on those submissions where these issues are discussed, but crucially, those submissions often don’t stick around the front page that long. Neither do controversial discussions.
When these discussions do surface into mainstream HN, there will be pushback.
Seeing more pushback than I would have expected on EAs, EACCs, and Bostroms than I would have expected.
fascists and racists do not welcome the spotlight (unless they’re already in an extremely powerful position from which to, subjectively, enjoy the attention), and our very good friends have recently become quite illuminated
Yeah, HN is a huge “community” and even if the site design tries to flatten it to some sort of homogeneous soup[1] there’s plenty of subcultures. The people who are interested in IQ, the danger of “woke” etc. tend to congregate on those submissions where these issues are discussed, but crucially, those submissions often don’t stick around the front page that long. Neither do controversial discussions.
When these discussions do surface into mainstream HN, there will be pushback.
[1] I wrote a bit about this here: https://gerikson.com/m/2023/12/index.html#d03p01_sun