I feel theres plenty of evidence... he's a super rich public figure known to lie to get traction on his projects. He doesn't need your protection

It's not about me protecting some billionaire that doesn't give a shit about me. It's about protecting reasonable discussion and trying to keep discussion in reality instead of it just being an echo chamber of "ai man bad". If I just wanted to see outrage and shitting on someone without substance I'd go read reddit and twitter.

Plenty of evidence... of which still none is being presented neutrally.

There is a bunch of evidence in the article we're commenting on. Good faith assumption that people have all read the article before commenting is (supposedly) a premise of HN's culture. In practice, many people who comment are responding solely to a comment or to the title presented.

I read the article, didn't see any evidence of the above claims.

Still waiting for such evidence...