No, it's more like requiring everyone submitting papers to the ACM to explain how their research will result in a more equitable society. That'd exclude a ton of research topics: how is a faster rendering technique going to result in anti-racist outcomes? I guess you cant submit that paper.

Faster renders favour people in socioeconomically deprived areas who lack higher-end resources and thus face a barrier to entry in the field.

Boom. Submit.

Or alternatively, faster renders magnify the advantages of people who can afford graphics cards. After all, the most marginalized people don't even have GPUs, so this research is further oppressing the poor.

For somebody who was born behind the Iron Curtain, this has very strong Soviet vibes.

Back then, it was advisable to stuff quotes by Marx or Lenin into everything, even an article discussing milk production.

Don't worry, Marx is still fair game in Western academia! It has even become fashionable as of late to proclaim oneself a "socialist" (though generally some sort of "socialism with Scandinavian characteristics" is being implied).

Even though the larping socialist dummies here in the US don't know the history of socialism in scandinavia and how Sweden in particular famously abandoned it in the 90s after a 20 year experiment with it where they saw their GDP remain absolutely flat despite almost 10% population growth.

Swedes will proudly claim to be capitalists with healthy social welfare programs.

The tax rates of New Yorkers and Californians are very similar to those across Scandinavia except that the Americans are getting way way less bang for their buck in services for that tax money due to state and local governments that are woefully ineffective. That and Norway/Sweden/Denmark have close to 1/3 public sector employment.

Or you just bend over backwards to make it fit ideologically.

Are you saying there is not a single aspect of personality that is unrelated to race?

That seems pretty racist.

I don't now how it started, but I'm sure it doesn't help that you edited all your posts to complain about it.

Quoting from the HN guidelines [1]: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Because a lot people disagree with you. It’s not a conspiracy, your take just isn’t popular.

Flagging a gentle and reasonable statement like "that isn't what I meant" isn't a practical way to handle disagreement, and doesn't follow HN's rules

The punishment culture for not being part of the crowd has gotten too much here.

Just roll with it. These are fake internet points anyway. They don't have any value. You can't leave them to your kids (something a commenter said the other day that's still ticking my brain). Complaining only motivates people to poke at you with more downvotes because they know it bothers you.

On Reddit I do. They have consequences here

At any rate, I've learned that my commentary here is considered inappropriate, so I should probably drop it.