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Things have calmed down a bit, so I'll just double down on this before I go: Do you even hear yourself when you talk? "What could be more regressive?" Um, how about deporting child…

No political objection to that video that I am aware of. Nothing to explain. Just what I said the first time. Sorry to be such a boring adversary.

am I debating an ELIZA upgrade

Sorry, can you clarify from elsewhere-- am I trying to discredit the topic at hand, or do I have no interest in it? I know it doesn't really make a big difference to your narrative…

Yes, politics is a reason one might prefer to avoid consuming some piece of media, including this one. In fact I think you have, for the first time, identified the entire content o…

:D So y'all are doubling down on the idea that simply suggesting folks look at the context of the content they consume is some toxic bias? If I'd suggested actually reading some co…

You're getting out of bounds. If you think my comments here are irrelevant or abusive, please report them to a moderator and desist replying. Otherwise, I'm here to talk if you are…

I have made, and am still making, no such argument, at considerable length, in this very thread. You are more than encouraged to join other commenters in vigorously protesting and …

And yet for some reason, while I've barely so much as mentioned politics, you can't seem to stop talking about it. If you think I am projecting bias in my comments, you're more tha…

So? I'm not asking anyone to adopt my politics. Don't you want everyone to form their own opinion, without my bias?

Do you actually believe that? I mean, do you actually believe that I think the Hyperloop is extremely important, criticism of it must be quashed at any cost, and this YouTuber will…

So? I've said a few times I don't care about the claims. They could be right, they could be wrong, better engineers than me will tell in the end. So what? Saying something true doe…

Respectfully (because your writing looks fine) but in all honesty, is English your first language? You ended your quotation on the preposition "without", which alone should tell yo…

If I were discrediting the channel as a means to discredit the video or its content, that might be poisoning the well. But the content is (god, I hope) not at issue. Discrediting t…

No. Just go to the channel, read the titles of some of the other videos, and then either walk away, or not, for your own reasons, or not. Or don't, if that really seems so hard. Ag…

> but in your own words you "encourage folks not to watch that video at least without..." Trying really hard not to get back on snark here, but... did you literally just stop readi…

Snarky reply replaced: I'm sincerely curious if that's really all you're taking away from my comment, including the explicit disclaimer. My advice was to pay closer attention to th…

I know it's a sensitive subject for HN, but I'll go ahead and encourage folks not to watch that video, at least without taking a look at some of the other popular videos on that ch…

Except that if you are Larry Page but you would rather live as a poor islander you can do that , but if you are a poor islander and you would rather live as Larry Page you are stil…

Depends whether you like weird board games based on formal logic, I guess :)

Fair point, it's not "the open web" or whatever. But they do, practically speaking, do everything you need-- and it speaks to other comments about whether "the open web" is really …

? I did exactly this with an entire Google account the other day: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout It's all standard formats. Not sure what else you could want aside fro…

I have a friend who's a Philosophy of Science PhD candidate. The department is part of the school of Social Sciences, but they mostly hang out with physicists, mathematicians and l…