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I don’t understand what these comments add to the discussion, you always see these and it’s just noise at this point.
by stingraycharles 3mo ago
I don’t understand what these comments add to the discussion, you always see these and it’s just noise at this point.
- danielbln 3mo agoThey add nothing, meaningless anecdotes. I was kind of riffing on that.
- skrebbel 3mo agoPosting meaningless comments isn’t suddenly useful because you’re aware of it and “riffing on that”.
- danielbln 3mo agoAnd now you've added to the pile, congratulations.
- weird-eye-issue 3mo agoSo you added BS, on purpose? There is nothing meaningless about anecdotes. The plural is data
- MomsAVoxell 3mo agoYeah come on, if these endless dialectic statements get made, at least post more detailed information about how your position was attained.
- zarzavat 3mo agoEvery metric becomes a target (Goodhart's law). Also, the plural of anecdote is not data. The subjective anecdotes from HN users matter because they are not data and are much harder to game. Not impossible to game, always be aware of users with low karma, but more difficult than gaming a benchmark.
- stingraycharles 3mo agoBut they’re not at all meaningful after a certain point, because they’re not even attempting to explain why it works well for them. It’s just noise like this.
- weird-eye-issue 3mo agoIf somebody gives a longer explanation of why they like or dislike it that would just be more noise it doesn't really matter that much beyond their general opinion about it