[rektide]

Agreed that there are probably ways to remediate some of these effects.

I definitely favor smaller less impactful scarring, but also, so what? Calling ths "unusually damning" seems like a significant overinflation of concern.

For all we know, it may have far more significant pro-recovery characteristics associated with it. "Oh you built too much scar tissue? Your vegan diet also stitched your blood vessels back together really well."

[arkitaip]

dang really needs to get YC to develop an AI that can automatically add /s to ironic comment.

[stelonix]

I'd rather HN not allow such comments and we try to make debate here better than on the rest of the internet.

[centimeter]

Or people could work on their ability to identify normal human modes of speech.

[ben_w]

Given we’ve had the internet for over a generation with this issue being known that whole time, I don’t think that’s actually something we can do. Not in general, not from plain text.

[centimeter]

I think only morons, autistics, etc have a habitually hard time identifying sarcasm. These are not the people we should optimize the web experience for.

[ben_w]

Only when spoken, not when written: https://theconversation.com/why-is-sarcasm-so-difficult-to-d...

[centimeter]

No, I have zero problem detecting sarcasm or irony in text. If you think about it for 5 seconds it's usually pretty clear.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Text inherently makes it difficult if not impossible to distinguish sarcasm that would be apparent with verbal/visual context clues.