This site is CLEARLY astroturfed to hell and back and infested with bots. Any attempted discussion of this fact gets killed REALLY fast.

This part of the guidelines is a 15 year out-of-date bad joke:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, > foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually > mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and > we'll look at the data.

"We'll look at the data". Sure buddy. You'll do what you always do, which is apply to banhammer to anyone that's not following your talking points, and tone police the actual humans.

Enjoy "conversing curiously" with bots while the mods tone-police non-bots out of existence.

For what it's worth the admins here have let the tone of conversation slip a little when it comes to AI, as in there are many people who now openly mock (and worse) the AI zealots and there's no admin coming in and "saving" the metaphorical day anymore. In the not so distant past that kind of behaviour was almost instantly reprimanded, kindergarten-style.