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this comment was clearly written by AI. please don't do that.
by postflopclarity 5mo ago
this comment was clearly written by AI. please don't do that.
- Retr0id 5mo agoNot sure why you were downvoted/flagged, because you're right. It is also quite an insightful comment worthy of discussion so I'm a little conflicted.
- skybrian 5mo agoI don’t see why it’s AI, but even if it is, it’s better than most human comments so the complaint should be downvoted.
- Retr0id 5mo agoTake a look at the user's history, it's more obvious in context. It has a lot of claude-specific tells which are noticeable if you've spent time working with claude. AI-generated comments are against the HN guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
- skybrian 5mo agoMaybe the guidelines should be changed? Something about: don’t complain about comments just because they’re AI.
- postflopclarity 5mo agoI'm not complaining "just" because it's AI. I'm complaining because it's AI, and also slop. > resolves into "cross-venue infrastructure" — which is also a more durable edge than within-venue alpha anybody who actually trades knows that on these markets, "cross venue infrastructure" (aka vibe coding some exchange api integrations) is much less important / durable than actual alpha.
- Retr0id 5mo agoSlop aside, do you think it's reasonable to assume a decent fraction of those making consistent profits are arbitrage bots?
- postflopclarity 5mo agoarbitrage is a rather overloaded word that people use for all kinds of strategies but yes, I predict most of the most profitable and consistent accounts are not actually attempting to forecast the outcome of these markets from first principles
- skybrian 5mo agoThat sounds plausible. Not a trader so I wouldn't know. Saying at least a little about what's actually wrong with it seems more useful than just saying it's slop, which gives me very little info over just a downvote.
- postflopclarity 5mo agoit's pretty easy to write basic trading api connectivity. the hard part is knowing what trades to send even if we are very charitable and assume the comment refers only to like high-engineering-effort infra for trying to be super competitive on latency, that's still like the opposite of a durable edge, since everybody is looking at it. there's very little "hidden" knowledge and it's mostly a matter of elbow grease and careful engineering.
- AmblingAvocado 5mo agoYes, just like the "don't say HN is becoming reddit" rule. If you think it's AI downvote or flag and move on, reading "this is AI" over and over all over the internet without any substantiation is tiresome.
- thazework 5mo agono fuck that. We should definitely complain about AI written content, and we should ban anyone who wants to keep people ignorant of time wasting bs comments. As a side note, the AI popularized usage of the word 'clean' to denote proper is physically revolting to me.
- nh23423fefe 5mo agophrenology
- postflopclarity 5mo agoif you're not able to tell that OP's comment was AI slop, then you probably don't have much insight to contribute to the conversation either.
- vcf 5mo agonot AI slop, simply a copy paste if the abstract of the paper. journals in our field limit the allowed number of words, so the style can feel « unnatural » even when human-written
- Retr0id 5mo agoThe abstract doesn't mention arbitrage at all
- b40d-48b2-979e 5mo agoForget to swap accounts?
- l23k4 5mo agoSamTinnerholm started to consistently use emdash in their comments starting 11 days ago, before that none of their comments used emdash. LLMs like emdash very much, humans don't use it very much these days.
- postflopclarity 5mo agoit's only "better than human comments" if you have no idea what profitable trading looks like. it's a very-very thin mildly convincing veneer over what is fundamentally slop.
- pjc50 5mo agoIt looks completely fine and plausible to me. Which is worrying.
- aaron695 5mo ago[dead]
- SkyPuncher 5mo agoYes, there's an em-dash, but it reads fine to me.
- postflopclarity 5mo agoAI slop is often good at "reading fine" but the actual content is incoherent.