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I am upvoting this because it shows how much we rely on good intentions. We expect the submitter to have verified the source, the upvoters to read and criticall
by vaidhy 6y ago
I am upvoting this because it shows how much we rely on good intentions. We expect the submitter to have verified the source, the upvoters to read and critically analyze the content and everyone else to have long attention spans to read the article. In reality, people consider title to be TLDR, commenters reply to the comment and not to the article, and people form opinions before reading.
I am actually proud that the community stood up for the ideals of trusting others (even if the trust was misplaced). I am also pleasantly surprised at how well GPT can mass produce such articles.
- pankajdoharey 6y agoI think at this point if the poster didn't post a good article it would be voted down quite quickly so we mostly rely on peoples own selfishness a few who did become the scape goat and in the angst downvote a post, that saves us all from reading a terrible article.
- dfxm12 6y agoI'm not sure what you mean. By "article" do you mean submission? Those can't be downvoted. You can "flag" a submission, but that's not for low quality submissions, but submissions that don't follow the guidelines.
- Nasrudith 6y agoReally I think it is a matter of the self-help genre essentially being vapid bullshit platitudes anyway I didn't even bother responding as it clearly wasn't my genre and nobody would appreciate the response. Human society is full of stacks based upon vapid bullshit. So GPT3 performed perfectly successfully in that matter and we should /really/ pay attention not to GPT3 as a threat (that would be shooting the messenger) but to our own bullshit susceptibility.
- gowld 6y agoBeing nice to people is great. Zooming BS pablum to the top of HM and wasting everyone's time and energy is not.
- treis 6y ago> In reality, people consider title to be TLDR, commenters reply to the comment and not to the article, and people form opinions before reading. I'm not sure this is a bad thing. I tend to read just the comments because they're ultimately more interesting. Blogs/articles are all fighting for attention in the world and they tend to be bombastic or just so explanations or other simplistic interpretations. HN comments tend to have the "real story". You get anecdotes and different perspectives and more nuanced opinions.