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It's the only bit of the response that I don't agree with. I don't come to HN solely for utilitarian purposes. If I think I'm frequently communicating with a ma
by discreteevent 4y ago
It's the only bit of the response that I don't agree with. I don't come to HN solely for utilitarian purposes. If I think I'm frequently communicating with a machine on HN then then I'll stop going to HN. It really will kill HN for me. If I want to communicate with a machine for utilitarian purposes then I'll go directly to the machine and I will know that I'm communicating with a machine (a machine that cannot bring me any new experience from the real world that was not mediated in text. A machine that can only select that text on a statistical basis. A machine that was in part trained on my own words from the past!).
- dang 4y agoYes, I agree - it was a throwaway line that I didn't think through. Maybe I'll add an edit. Thanks!
- bombcar 4y agoI thought it was Brillant personally - that if what we’re posting is pretty indistinguishable from a bot then it’s not really worth posting. Heck the “don’t post the obvious boring response” rule is basically that.
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- clay-dreidels 4y agoI apologize
- dang 4y agoIf you mean about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950722, that's fine, but please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can sort it for you.
- krageon 4y ago> If I think I'm [...] If the problem is your faith, it is you that has to change and not the world. It's much easier that way around too :)