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HN was absolutely choked with the same sort of would-be experts, reading the Wikipedia page for Superconductors and trying to post their way into a position of
by plorg 3y ago
HN was absolutely choked with the same sort of would-be experts, reading the Wikipedia page for Superconductors and trying to post their way into a position of authoritative knowledge. Certainly there are more on Twitter as a consequence of the larger use base, but those two weeks involved some of the most unhinged hype-posting I've seen in the decade I've been following HN.
- burnished 3y ago'Nerds get excited and furiously try to catch up'? Everyone is acting like reading up on superconductivity and discussing it is this social ill - did I miss something? Did it turn into a ponzi scam?
- plorg 3y agoMore like people with relatively low familiarity with a field posting with the confidence of ChatGPT and, like LLM spam, recycling and reposting so much material that adds nothing to the conversation that any actually useful content is buried.