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Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong with the Internet

submitted by walter+(OP) on 2018-04-30 17:42:14 | 72 points 21 comments
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5. adam+bd[view] [source] 2018-04-30 19:24:52
>>walter+(OP)
If you prefer your Jaron Lanier in audio form, this was a very similar interview he did for Ezra Klein's podcast: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/16/16897738/jaron-lanier-intervie...
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17. lsh+6J[view] [source] [discussion] 2018-04-30 23:29:35
>>dredmo+rD
Thank you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_8
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18. dang+f81[view] [source] [discussion] 2018-05-01 06:37:56
>>origin+TF
This breaks the site guidelines. We don't want ideological, religious, or national flamewar on HN.

Could you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this again?

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20. dang+G52[view] [source] [discussion] 2018-05-01 16:39:55
>>origin+gU1
The problem is that, like flames, they consume everything if you let them. Therefore we can't let them.

Hacker News is just one kind of website, not every kind. To survive, it needs to stay focused on its mandate, the gratification of intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). We've learned a lot over the years about what serves that spirit vs. what kills it. Comments like what you've been posting are among the most toxic to it. I'm sure there are many other places where they'd be fine, but here they're off topic, and encourage worse.

People frequently want to use HN for other things, such as political and ideological battle, but that would soon kill the site. Are those matters important? Yes they are. But does a forum dedicated to other, less important things, also have a right to exist? I think it does.

In terms of the comment I replied to, you crossed into religious flamewar, national flamewar, and ideological battle, all of which are things we don't want here. For this kind of discussion, you need to find another website, or perhaps create one. There is room for many more communities online.

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