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Allow me to offer a minor reframing: printing presses aren't about duplicating writing. The printing press exists to mass produce text regardless of how or wher
by estimator7292 2mo ago
Allow me to offer a minor reframing: printing presses aren't about duplicating writing. The printing press exists to mass produce text regardless of how or where the content of the text was produced.
LLMs likewise are text production machines. They don't produce writing, they produce text. Text without writing is what we call slop in the modern parlance.
LLMs are literally throwing random dice into a printing press and making a thousand copies that you then try to huck on the street as if it were a real newspaper.
- inigyou 2mo agoYou are shadowbanned and have been writing mostly into the void for the last three months. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067472
- DarkUranium 2mo agoI'm confused, how can I see it, for example?
- shmeeed 2mo agoStrangely, I'm still seeing the comment. How does that work?
- inigyou 2mo agoA user with enough reputation and who has enabled the option to view censored comments can vouch for a censored comment, restoring it.
- rootusrootus 2mo agoI wonder how that algorithm works. At the risk of discussing a bit of a taboo topic (are there rules against this? there might be...), I've never vouched for a comment and had it come alive. I have many times been the final nail in a comment where my flag caused it to die, but I have never seen the opposite with vouch.
- losvedir 2mo agoInteresting. Every time I've ever vouched a comment, it came alive. (Though the last one I vouched ended up dead again after enough people flagged it, oops. I hope that doesn't mean I lost my power. In my defense, it was flagged to death based on being AI [apparently], which I didn't pick up the signal on, nothing super terrible / controversial.)
- inigyou 2mo agoYou are probably shadowbanned from flagging and vouching, which is separate from a commenting and posting shadowban. A shadowbanned comment only requires one vouch to come alive. A comment that is dead because of excessive flags or moderator action may require more.
- marcosdumay 2mo agoLooks to me that the ban was reversed at some point. The GP's comments are quite reachable.
- inigyou 2mo agoEnable showdead and scroll through their history
- marcosdumay 2mo agoThey have a lot of dead comments, and their recent comments are all non-dead. Either people are vouching for those again and again, or the ban was lifted at some point. I don't really know how this works here, but the first option seems unlikely to me.