There has not been a pro-US exceptionalism tone in any HN thread in awhile. Go to any thread recently and it's pretty anti-capitalism/anti-US.

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desterothx a day ago | parent | next [-]

In all open weight model discussions there is at least some anti-Chinese sentiment

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h8hawk 19 hours ago | parent [-]

They are likely Effective Altruists highly attuned to AGI (With current LLM's) risks, fearing an LLM uprising and human extinction, which they regard as the world's most critical challenge.

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HPsquared 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Ironic, given the effectiveness of the open weights models that are distributed altruistically.

	▲	tancop 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		the name stopped being relevant a long time ago when they went from rating charities to coming up with horror stories about ai. "ineffective egotism" would be better for what they are now.

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baal80spam 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've definitely noticed even more than that - any submissions painting the current USA in a good light are instantly and mercilessly buried (you can check my submissions for examples), while anything even remotely on the "USA bad" side gets to the top. It's really a sad state of affairs.

	▲	adjejmxbdjdn 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You may take this as “USA bad”, comment, but let’s take the U.S. life expectancy reaches record high (in 2024) link you posted. That sounds like a good thing and it is. But it’s not a US story. In fact, other wealthy countries didn’t just already have a higher baseline life expectancy pre-COVID, they rebounded to it post-COVID sooner than the U.S. was able to its already lower level. So what this actually is, is a story of “global modern medicine good”, and unfortunately, even within that, the U.S. is among the worst performing.
	▲	apropos_ 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I tried to read the Washington Post op-ed piece you shared on reasons to be optimistic about America’s future. As soon as I scrolled down, the content was replaced by a patriotic fireworks animation and a paywall. Seemed a bit on the nose.
	▲	thegrim33 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		aka this very thread - top comment and most of the entire comment section has been taken over by literally "how dare anyone say anything even remotely negative about China, what's wrong with you".