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I'm skeptical because my entire identity is basically built around being a software engineer and thinking my IQ and intelligence is higher than other people. If
by ninetyninenine 11mo ago
I'm skeptical because my entire identity is basically built around being a software engineer and thinking my IQ and intelligence is higher than other people. If this AI stuff is real then it basically destroys my entire identity so I choose the most convenient conclusion.
Basically we all know that AI is just a stochastic parrot autocomplete. That's all it is. Anyone who doesn't agree with me is of lesser intelligence and I feel the need to inform them of things that are obvious: AI is not a human, it does not have emotions. It just a search engine. Those people who are using AI to code and do things that are indistinguishable from human reasoning are liars. I choose to focus on what AI gets wrong, like hallucinations, while ignoring the things it gets right.
- cindyllm 11mo ago[dead]
- hju22_-3 11mo ago> [...] my entire identity is basically built around [...] thinking my IQ and intelligence is higher than other people. Well, there's your first problem.
- vintermann 11mo agoI don't know, that's commendable self-insight, it's true of lots and lots of people but there are few who would admit it!
- ninetyninenine 11mo agoI am unique. Totally. It is not like HN is flooded with cognition or psychology or IQ articles every other hour. Not at all. And whenever one shows up, you do not immediately get a parade of people diagnosing themselves with whatever the headline says. Never happens. You post something about slow thinking and suddenly half the thread whispers “that is literally me.” You post something about fast thinking and the other half says “finally someone understands my brain.” You post something about overthinking and everyone shows up with “wow I feel so seen.” You post something about attention and now the entire site has ADHD. But yes. I am the unique one.
- vintermann 11mo agoAh, so you were just attempting sarcasm?
- ninetyninenine 11mo agoYeah I’m not unbiased enough to actually have that level of self awareness. I thought the ludicrousness of it made it obvious it was sarcasm.
- tptacek 11mo agoHN is not in fact flooded with cognition, psychology, and IQ articles every other hour.
- ninetyninenine 11mo agoThere was more prior to AI but yes I exaggerated it. I mean it’s obvious right? The title of this page is hacker so it must be tech related articles every hour. But articles on IQ and cognition and psychology are extremely common in HN. Enough to be noticeably out of place.
- tptacek 11mo agoThey are actually not really all that common at all. We get 1, maybe 2 in a busy month.
- ninetyninenine 11mo agoDisagree highly with this. It was up to twice a week before AI. Curious why AI made the rate go down. You seem like a high iq individual. So someone with your intellectual capability must be offended that I would even suggest that HNers love to think of themselves as smart.
- tptacek 11mo ago
- twoodfin 11mo agoThis kind of comment certainly shows that no organic stochastic parrots post to hn threads!