[joecool1029]

> These current-events climate stories are the most important pieces of news on the site.

In your opinion. Many other HN users don't feel that way and get tired of seeing the same topic over and over again. If it's not intellectually interesting and seems overly political it's getting that flag button clicked.

EDIT: Before downvoting/flagging me consider that maybe I don't hold the views you dislike. I'm making commentary in the comment section and only pointing out that perhaps it's not dang killing submissions but actually other HN users that don't agree with you.

[matthewdgreen]

The world's anomalous current ocean temperatures are not a political matter. And if your brain is telling you that they are, I would beg you to spend some time recalibrating. Or go read something else, there's lots of room on the front page.

[shrimp_emoji]

Evolution did not program people to care about important things.

[joecool1029]

> The world's anomalous current ocean temperatures are not a political matter.

Sure it is, if you believe that everyone considers this the biggest issue or that everyone comes to HN to read about climate news then I am sorry to deliver this shock to you that they don't.

>And if your brain is telling you that they are, I would beg you to spend some time recalibrating. Or go read something else, there's lots of room on the front page.

Are you just going to resort to ad hominem attacks or acknowledge that bringing up this topic will resort in discussion that's political in nature? That's all I'm asking, I haven't expressed my personal opinion only pointed out that not all people think or value things the same way, not even in the HN commenter bubble.

[minusf]

so why dont i see that with ai related stuff? hn has been basically a gpt news site the last 4 months. quite sick of it actually. i dont remember even 5 climate change big threads recently, it's like the issue doesnt exist here at all. climate change is not only political - there's tons of research and science involved. but it's better to know someone put gpt on self driving cars that can cook asian fusion hallucinated recipes. hn has its blind spots just like any other site.

[version_five]

I get the sense that a lot of people hate AI stuff, but a lot of people are also interested, so it gets downweighted but a lot of stories still appear. This is based on seeing a few dang comments about it, plus getting lots of upvotes on some anti AI post comments I've made. I agree it's too much. Otoh, it's a new and evolving field (llms et al) that has regular new information, that's relevant to the community. I think there's more new information in the AI posts than in the "here's evidence climate change is bad" posts. Posts about tech that addresses climate change would be interesting and do get discussed periodically.

[joecool1029]

It's priorities, more users on this site work in software that uses AI and are concerned about their livelihood. How many people come to this site to learn about tooling or new ways they can make money? I would guess it's a pretty large amount.

It's short-sighted but if you have to survive and pay the bills this is what you have to do. Not everyone is a tenured professor with the ability to have this as their primary priority.

[matthewdgreen]

I’m not a tenured professor with the ability to have this as my primary priority. I’m a person who has kids and wants to know if they’re going to have a world to live in. Even a world with AI and no jobs is a hell of a lot better than a world where we can’t grow crops because the climate hit a tipping point and we all shut our eyes.

[joecool1029]

>I’m not a tenured professor with the ability to have this as my primary priority.

Can you see now why it's bad to assume things and engage in bad faith ad hominem?

>I’m a person who has kids and wants to know if they’re going to have a world to live in

They will. It will be different and might be worse. They won't have the same food, weather might harm them.

If you haven't written me off for my last comment, I rent a cottage on a small farm. On the land stands a sole american chestnut in a region where there was once billions. We have planted seedlings started from this tree. For what? The world didn't go away for this survivor, but the stress of the blight afflicts it and it will almost certainly take its young when they mature. Science has made it possible to bring the closest version of this tree back through genetic modification, but should it be done? I am of the mindset that yes, we should do that. Many will disagree. Should we keep trying to hybridize it with foreign species, or should we let it fade into the fossil record? There's no consensus so national policy hasn't changed.

I bring this up because I do notice, I see the changes in the world around me but I as an individual only have the power to struggle on my own to adapt to them. Do you understand that it's not a lack of my caring, but a fatigue of hearing the same 'worse this year' reporting that there's not much point in discussing?

[pieter_mj]

Browser side solutions have been provided by other users (not by hn) to hide certain coversations. I think it's an excellent solution to hide climate change stuff if you so wish, unless you're using an app all the time.

More than plenty of other stories going around to drown climate change conversations in, so to speak. No need to delete them imo. Besides, we're smart enough to ignore the in our opinion boring and political stuff.

[minusf]

https://twitter.com/short_straw/status/1655352280202313734

actually i'm off to lobsters. we are all just giving YC nerd cred for free they dont deserve.

anybody has an invite? ;)

[dredmorbius]

dang has specifically addressed the flood of AI / ChatGPT content on HN:

There are plenty of such repetitive/indignant symptoms and one of our jobs is to dampen them so they don't crowd out the things that actually are interesting to read. If we didn't do this, HN would consist of almost nothing but sensationalism, indignation, and the few hottest topics of the moment (ChatGPT these days). It's our job not to let that happen.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507392>