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I was enjoying this article but when you got to the importance of character, asking ChatGPT to define it seemed - at least to me - a bit of a cop-out. Would hav
by ddq 3y ago
I was enjoying this article but when you got to the importance of character, asking ChatGPT to define it seemed - at least to me - a bit of a cop-out. Would have liked more personal perspective there.
- Tade0 3y agoIncreasingly, when I ask someone for their opinion, they just tell me they've put that question into ChatGPT and this is what it said. Well, okay, but if I wanted to hear that I would have asked ChatGPT directly, no?
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- ghostpepper 3y agoAs a counterpoint, isn't it implied that the person has read what ChatGPT wrote and by forwarding it, agrees that it's a roughly similar phrasing of their feelings on the issue? One would hope so, anyway.
- AlbertCory 3y agoIndeed that's what I thought, but I think it's fair to say, "I don't want to read ChatGPT's answers." More precisely, I did get lazy and think, "well, I don't know what he meant, exactly, but he'd probably pick out one or two of these points, at least. ChatGPT tends to include everything, including the kitchen sink."
- Tade0 3y agoPlus, to me, "I don't know" is also an answer - I use it to gauge how niche a topic might actually be. LLMs do that at all.
- coldtea 3y agoWhy not cut out the middleman then? People who "agree with what ChatGPT wrote" are redundant in a discussion if they're merely relaying it.
- ghostpepper 3y agoIf you're an expert in X and I'm not, you can easily google "intro to X" and skim the first handful of pages and send me the best one. This is the same idea IMHO. Telling me that ChatGPT's answer is not horribly wrong could be a very useful data point.
- AlbertCory 3y agoOK, I'll accept that, thanks. I spent a lot of time on the rest of it. For this part, I didn't think I had anything particular to say about "character" that wouldn't take me days to compose, and might not be what Blakey meant by it anyway. But yeah, this device has worn out its welcome.
- johnea 3y agoWhy is the top ranking comments in this thread not even about the original article? This is so typical in the HN comments. This is a comment thread about 1962 interview of Miles Davis, not Albert Cory...
- AlbertCory 3y agoBecause I wrote about something Miles said in that interview.
- johnea 3y agoThis is still not about your writing and shouldn't be at the top of the comments. And its definetely NOT about programming, OR leadership.
- coldtea 3y agoYou don't get to decide what should be at the top of the comments. >And its definetely NOT about programming, OR leadership Never had to be. Perhaps you took the name "Hacker News" too literally?
- Stratoscope 3y agoAlbert's comment wasn't about himself, but about an article he wrote that I found quite relevant to the Miles Davis article. He compares Miles' onstage behavior when another musician is soloing with Art Blakey's very different approach. It's worth reading them both, and I am glad they were both called to my attention. To answer your question about why it's at the top of the comment thread, I'm sure you already know the answer: multiple people like myself found it interesting and upvoted it. Complaining about that won't change anything.
- helsinkiandrew 3y agoIt does seem a little lazy and jarring to quote from ChatGPT, but technically is much the same as if he had added a named quote directly: "Merriam-Webster dictionary defines character as.." or "Albert Camus once said that character is..."