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>What follows is, before anything else, a story. One of those old, well-worn ones. Gag.
by ofjcihen 6mo ago
>What follows is, before anything else, a story. One of those old, well-worn ones.
Gag.
- AntiUSAbah 6mo ago[flagged]
- somat 6mo agoI suspect the revulsion is that he did not write a full blog post, the time and effort was not consumed, instead there was an engine that did it for him. At which point interest drops significantly. I too suffer from lack of interest in machine written posts. but the real sociological problem is because it is hard to tell the difference, disinterest turns into paranoia. And this hurts everyone. However in this case, the article in question does not read like machine written, so perhaps the revulsion was just over the hyperbolic tone.
- ofjcihen 6mo agoNah I’m just sick of the melodramatic style of writing that seems to pervade all of the major tech blogs and companies now. These people write like they picture themselves as sages describing the end times to scared children.
- AntiUSAbah 6mo agoAnd? then keep it for yourself. Why do i have to read your ignorant comment? You complain about their writing style, no one forced you to read, which you could summarize with an AI if you even cared for the conent but no. And i read A LOT and i do not come across this writing style at all.
- ofjcihen 6mo ago> then keep it for yourself. Nah.
- otterley 6mo agoHey, knock it off. If you disagree with someone, be polite.
- Twirrim 6mo ago>And? then keep it for yourself. Why do i have to read your ignorant comment? On a site dedicated to commenting on articles? I think you have a misunderstanding of how HN works. People (hopefully) read the article and share uninformed^H informed opinions on the article. That has always included critique of the way that the content is written. In this case, very valid critique. I'm astounded you're somehow managing to read "A LOT" and not run into it regularly. At least we seem to be moving away from the absolutely awful "I'm a crazy frat bro" style of writing where it feels like half the action sentences should be appended with "because I'm crazy!" that was spreading far too far and wide (hopefully because it's hard to coax AI into that style.)
- AntiUSAbah 6mo agoIts not valid critique at all. And its disrespectful to people who create proper content and do the work.
- linkregister 6mo agoComplaining about someone's comment is inconsistent with your world view, if complaining about a blogger's writing style is verboten.
- plorg 6mo agoYeah, that extremely purple paragraph about how the blog was documenting that liminal period where humans worked together with AI as partners was embarrassing.
- gwern 6mo ago> also it is, more quietly, the account of how I tried to make peace with the new shape of the world we are now living in.