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Why write a sentence by sentence exigesis like this? The text you are responding to is right above where you are writing. Who is going to miss that context? I

Why write a sentence by sentence exigesis like this? The text you are responding to is right above where you are writing. Who is going to miss that context? Is there something more that you want to communicate other than that the linked page does not in fact solve it the way the LLM did? Writing more does not in itself make a comment more thoughtful! We are all presumably on the same page here, just say what you want to say, in the spirit of intellectual charity and curiousity. There is no one to impress here!

krisoft 12d ago
Because the annotation is making it clear what exact part of the comment I'm referring with each part of my answer. > Who is going to miss that context? On hacker news? Anyone. Sometimes you blink and there are 200 different comments between the comment you responded to and your response. Often going into different tangential directions. People reading your comment have to trace subtle variations in padding to follow the thread of a conversation. If you read HN with open eyes you can see confusion and misunderstanding caused by this every day. > just say what you want to say I do. Thank you. And I will say it how I want it. > Writing more does not in itself make a comment more thoughtful! Of course! You have to write the right words. What you are seeing in my comment is a one line opinion "Strong words. I don't think your comment supports them." surrounded by my analysis of why I think them. This way you can not only see how I come to this conclusion but also what information I considered. If we were agreeing I could just write "yup". But because I disagree with the comment of geraneum, i better be precise what I'm disagreeing with and in which way. Exactly in the name of intellectual charity and curiosity.
- beepbooptheory 11d ago
  If there was truly no other way you could of articulated your argument there in your mind, then I am sorry for suggesting otherwise I guess! And fwiw, I just collapse comments if its hard to follow a particular thread! That's why they have that feature.
quietbritishjim 11d ago
The longer of the two quotes is from the article, not the comment they're replying to. The point is that OP did miss that context. They claimed that the article isn't right but, if you look closely, the claim in the article is true - the OP misunderstood it. So quoting precisely what the article said really was necessary.
- geraneum 6d ago
  Not really. The article is obviously misleading. The response can’t address the criticism in a meaningful way as a whole, hence going Jordan Peterson on it.
vidarh 11d ago
We've sunk so low that people are now complaining about old-school inline quoting...
- beepbooptheory 11d ago
  > We've sunk so low that people are now complaining about old-school inline quoting... I disagree with this part. But we can certainly sink lower!

krisoft 12d ago

Because the annotation is making it clear what exact part of the comment I'm referring with each part of my answer. > Who is going to miss that context? On hacker news? Anyone. Sometimes you blink and there are 200 different comments between the comment you responded to and your response. Often going into different tangential directions. People reading your comment have to trace subtle variations in padding to follow the thread of a conversation. If you read HN with open eyes you can see confusion and misunderstanding caused by this every day. > just say what you want to say I do. Thank you. And I will say it how I want it. > Writing more does not in itself make a comment more thoughtful! Of course! You have to write the right words. What you are seeing in my comment is a one line opinion "Strong words. I don't think your comment supports them." surrounded by my analysis of why I think them. This way you can not only see how I come to this conclusion but also what information I considered. If we were agreeing I could just write "yup". But because I disagree with the comment of geraneum, i better be precise what I'm disagreeing with and in which way. Exactly in the name of intellectual charity and curiosity.

beepbooptheory 11d ago
If there was truly no other way you could of articulated your argument there in your mind, then I am sorry for suggesting otherwise I guess! And fwiw, I just collapse comments if its hard to follow a particular thread! That's why they have that feature.

quietbritishjim 11d ago

The longer of the two quotes is from the article, not the comment they're replying to. The point is that OP did miss that context. They claimed that the article isn't right but, if you look closely, the claim in the article is true - the OP misunderstood it. So quoting precisely what the article said really was necessary.

geraneum 6d ago
Not really. The article is obviously misleading. The response can’t address the criticism in a meaningful way as a whole, hence going Jordan Peterson on it.

vidarh 11d ago

We've sunk so low that people are now complaining about old-school inline quoting...

beepbooptheory 11d ago
> We've sunk so low that people are now complaining about old-school inline quoting... I disagree with this part. But we can certainly sink lower!