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by gisssop 525 days ago
The author did not compare against the findability of other articles which aren't about net neutrality. So his conclusion that it's about the content of his article isn't supported by his analysis.
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Not everything in life is a scientific experiment that fits into an undergraduate "research methods" model of the world.

What does it even mean to conduct a sampling of "findability" within a system whose results depend on when you search, who you are, where you search from, and the subject on which you're searching? We're way beyond Schrodinger's cat level of uncertainty with these non-deterministic systems and their hidden actors explicitly manipulating the results (as "guardrails", "moderation", whatever).

Search (and AI) is a principal agent problem and there are insoluble trust issues around information technology today that make a "scientific" approach rather naive.

The article is not about net-neutrality either, it's about pieces of information silently disappearing from the public internet, without even the authors being notified. The contents of the specific article are not the focus here.
Yes, xe did. Xe explicitly compares it to the findability of one of xyr articles that mentions Squid Game.
The author calls himself male https://www.blogger.com/profile/17977561124307072281

Why that made up pronoun?

> Why that made up pronoun?

Pedantically, all words are made up. I'd assume GP is using it because they see utility in a unambiguously-singular gender-nonspecific pronoun, opposed to the more widespread but somewhat ambiguous singular "they".

Yeah I also realized my wording probably wasn't right. I meant to say words not known by most of the English speakers which can also not be found in the big dictionaries (to be fair Oxford had it, but Merriam webster didn't).

Especially when there is an established gender neutral pronoun: they

The pronouns people use for me can be independent of what I call myself
... and in the context where gender non-indicative well established word 'they' would suffice.

I can see why commenter wouldn't call author 'him'. Why would anyone bother to track authors gender if it's irrelevant for the topic?

Should I be worried that people think I'm a bigot if I write "they" about someone I don't know, now?
No.