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I did this and it just used my card to book round trip tickets to Yosemite almost immediately

by digitcatphd 2y ago

karmajunkie 2y ago
seriously, or is this missing a /s tag?
- GaggiX 2y ago
  He's joking, in the report of Claude Computer Use it was reported that Claude stopped doing a task and started searching images of the Yellowstone National Park.
- Uehreka 2y ago
  Don’t encourage the /s, I only see people use /s when they’re writing something that isn’t funny enough to read as a joke or are doing sarcasm badly. Sometimes people make a joke that not everyone is going to get. That’s fine. But if you add the /s, it ruins the joke for the people who did get it.
  - tgv 2y ago
    It's also a lazy convention for lazy replies, the sort HN discourages. As you say, it's doing sarcasm, but badly: the writer can blurt out the first quip that comes to mind, regardless of it being related, and hides behind the prestige that sarcasm has, while often only virtue signalling.
  - scubbo 2y ago
    Your judgement of entertainment is not more important than clarity of communication.
    - Uehreka 2y ago
      If you want to be sure you’re clearly understood, don’t use sarcasm (it’s a massively overrated and really cheap form of humor anyway). If you want to be funny, take the risk that you’ll be misunderstood. My problem is with people who want it both ways.
      - scubbo 2y ago
        > My problem is with people who want it both ways. Why? Why would you dislike a solution which neatly solves a false dilemma? You may subjectively believe that sarcasm is over-used (and in fact I personally agree with you), but why are you put-out that people who like it have found a way to encode the non-verbal cues of speech into text to increase fidelity in communication? EDIT: the problem _specifically_ with sarcasm and clarity is that it appears to say the opposite of what it actually says. You say in an earlier comment that "Sometimes people make a joke that not everyone is going to get. That’s fine." - but that is in fact _not_ fine when the possible outcome is someone believing that you hold a view entirely opposed to what you actually do. I hope I don't need to paint you a picture.
        Uehreka 2y ago
        > Why would you dislike a solution which neatly solves a false dilemma? What dilemma? I’ve been diagnosed with autism/asperger syndrome since the age of six, and even I can see when people are being sarcastic without needing an explicit signal. I dislike the “solution” because it ruins the joke. The whole point of sarcasm is to communicate a common gripe with other people without saying it out loud. If you’re not sure if the audience of your comment shares your common gripe (or if they don’t know you well enough to know what kinds of things you’d never say seriously) then that’s a bad time to use sarcasm.

I did this and it just used my card to book round trip tickets to Yosemite almost immediately

karmajunkie 2y ago

seriously, or is this missing a /s tag?

GaggiX 2y ago
He's joking, in the report of Claude Computer Use it was reported that Claude stopped doing a task and started searching images of the Yellowstone National Park.
Uehreka 2y ago
Don’t encourage the /s, I only see people use /s when they’re writing something that isn’t funny enough to read as a joke or are doing sarcasm badly. Sometimes people make a joke that not everyone is going to get. That’s fine. But if you add the /s, it ruins the joke for the people who did get it.
- tgv 2y ago
  It's also a lazy convention for lazy replies, the sort HN discourages. As you say, it's doing sarcasm, but badly: the writer can blurt out the first quip that comes to mind, regardless of it being related, and hides behind the prestige that sarcasm has, while often only virtue signalling.
- scubbo 2y ago
  Your judgement of entertainment is not more important than clarity of communication.
  - Uehreka 2y ago
    If you want to be sure you’re clearly understood, don’t use sarcasm (it’s a massively overrated and really cheap form of humor anyway). If you want to be funny, take the risk that you’ll be misunderstood. My problem is with people who want it both ways.
    - scubbo 2y ago
      > My problem is with people who want it both ways. Why? Why would you dislike a solution which neatly solves a false dilemma? You may subjectively believe that sarcasm is over-used (and in fact I personally agree with you), but why are you put-out that people who like it have found a way to encode the non-verbal cues of speech into text to increase fidelity in communication? EDIT: the problem _specifically_ with sarcasm and clarity is that it appears to say the opposite of what it actually says. You say in an earlier comment that "Sometimes people make a joke that not everyone is going to get. That’s fine." - but that is in fact _not_ fine when the possible outcome is someone believing that you hold a view entirely opposed to what you actually do. I hope I don't need to paint you a picture.
      - Uehreka 2y ago
        > Why would you dislike a solution which neatly solves a false dilemma? What dilemma? I’ve been diagnosed with autism/asperger syndrome since the age of six, and even I can see when people are being sarcastic without needing an explicit signal. I dislike the “solution” because it ruins the joke. The whole point of sarcasm is to communicate a common gripe with other people without saying it out loud. If you’re not sure if the audience of your comment shares your common gripe (or if they don’t know you well enough to know what kinds of things you’d never say seriously) then that’s a bad time to use sarcasm.