I think I’m done with HN
&gt; <i>while any mention of the fate of George Floyd and so many others who have suffered and died at the hands of police gets aggressively removed from discussion</i><p>That&#x27;s not even close to true—not by orders of magnitude. This seems like a classic of the notice-dislike bias (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;query=by:dang notice dislike&amp;sort=byDate&amp;type=comment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=0&amp;prefix=true&amp;que...</a>): that is, you&#x27;ve seen things that you didn&#x27;t like in one discussion and weighted it more heavily than everything else, including the by-far-most-discussed theme of the last month.<p>That bias is so powerful that I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;ve seen even a single counterexample, and it seems to make objective assessment impossible. I don&#x27;t know what to do about it. We can&#x27;t remove everything that somebody dislikes—there would be nothing left—but the presence of material that people dislike makes them draw extremely distorted conclusions. I believe this is an outcome of HN being a non-siloed site. Most other places on the internet, you choose your silo so you&#x27;re surrounded by friendly views and don&#x27;t encounter so many nasty things. Here, everyone&#x27;s in one silo and it creates a shock experience. This leads people to dramatically false conclusions, but it doesn&#x27;t matter because they feel intensely true. I wrote about this recently here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23308098" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23308098</a>.