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Comment by dpifke | Hacker News Reader

This site isn't for stories about social media or things that "shape our politics and our society," it's for stories that are interesting to hackers: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There are other places to discuss the former. The initial stories about the Twitter acquisition arguably fell into the latter category, but the constant rumor-mongering, ad-hominem attacks, and ideological battles no longer do.

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As a hacker my intellectual curiosity is mostly about things that shape our politics and society.

Do you think hackers don't take an interest in tech that shapes our society?

What is it you think we do, then?

> What is it you think we do, then?

Focus on the stuff we can control and ignore the noise? Isn’t that one of the hallmarks of supposedly high IQ people?

Separating signal from noise?

Whatever happens at Twitter you cannot change it, and now with it being private you can’t even bet on the outcome.

So maybe it’s best to just ignore and let the actors do whatever they want to do..

> Focus on the stuff we can control and ignore the noise? Isn’t that one of the hallmarks of supposedly high IQ people?

Isn’t the opposite usually held to be the case? The groups you would typically associate with impractical learning for its own sake (university professors, public intellectuals, novelists, etc) are seen as smart cookies

OK, but at least some hackers are interested in the ways that tech companies shape our politics and our society. (Hacking society is about the biggest hack there is.)

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