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Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses. But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a prob
by amelius 3mo ago
Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses.
But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?
- profsummergig 3mo agoSeems like the divide between the voters who vote in the Primaries and the voters who vote in the actual Election. Vocal minority vs. Silent majority.
- nozzlegear 3mo agoGoomba fallacy
- twister2920 3mo agothank you, nice to put a name to this phenomenon
- amelius 3mo agoDoes it also apply to the case where you have a single number: upvotes minus downvotes?
- twister2920 3mo agohuh?
- zamadatix 3mo agoI can't say I've seen the same universally, but, if it is s trend, it would seem one invites discussion between humans on the site while the other seeks to minimize it.
- wat10000 3mo agoMost of the responses here are negative. Seems consistent.
- muglug 3mo agoDifferent posts on HN can attract different audiences.
- rjh29 3mo agoReddit has the same phenomenon where the audience doing the upvotes is very different to the audience posting comments. As I'm in the second group I would love to say it's because people who read comments are smarter than those who just look at the main content. Smarter or not it's a different userbase and it creates some conflict.
- morkalork 3mo agor/museum and all the softcore porn
- kristianp 3mo agoIt's because it's a novel solution to "I lost my phone".
- dgellow 3mo agoHN isn’t a monolithic bloc. A good part of the HN audience is very pro AI, another part is very skeptical. You have enough of each group to promote both sides. If HN posts could be downvoted things might bend hard one direction but with only upvotes you get a mix