Interesting, the only recent irl aggression (verbal, not physical) I’ve received from the techie crowd in SF was related to the Sam Altman firing[1]. I’ve also gotten more standard leftist anger but I don’t think that anger is very centrally Hacker News-y, I’d guess those people would also be angry at Hacker News.
I have Hacker News blocked so I cannot pull up threads now, but what I have in mind (and I’m pretty confident is what DirectedEvolution had in mind) is many many threads on Hacker News where, when LessWrong is mentioned, it’s called a cult and has a bunch of other low-quality critical comments about it with a derisive tone.
(I believe I recalled it getting better in the few years after LessWrong 2.0 started, though I think I’ve seen an uptick again around AI threads.)
Interesting, the only recent irl aggression (verbal, not physical) I’ve received from the techie crowd in SF was related to the Sam Altman firing[1]. I’ve also gotten more standard leftist anger but I don’t think that anger is very centrally Hacker News-y, I’d guess those people would also be angry at Hacker News.
Oh I remember another time an ML person got mad at me for mentioning Bostrom’s Superintelligence.
I have Hacker News blocked so I cannot pull up threads now, but what I have in mind (and I’m pretty confident is what DirectedEvolution had in mind) is many many threads on Hacker News where, when LessWrong is mentioned, it’s called a cult and has a bunch of other low-quality critical comments about it with a derisive tone.
(I believe I recalled it getting better in the few years after LessWrong 2.0 started, though I think I’ve seen an uptick again around AI threads.)