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>who's only capability is to generate text can have any significant impact on anything is simply ridiculous. We are all just text here. So far as I know, by yo
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>who's only capability is to generate text can have any significant impact on anything is simply ridiculous.
We are all just text here. So far as I know, by your metric, you never have significant impact on anything.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoHum, yes, did you really think HN comments have any significant impact on anything?
- IIAOPSW 4y agoWords accomplish something, certainly far more than they cost to produce, otherwise why did we start doing it and why haven't we stopped. Your hands alone won't build an empire in a thousand lifetimes. It won't even pave a complete road. For that you need to pitch a compelling argument and influence a large group to go along with your vision. These particular words here and now probably won't do much of anything. The odds of at least some of them in my corpus of hn comments going on to impact something is great enough to justify the meager cost in doing so.