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This title could have been written by buzzfeed. I am interested in information and not hype (unless of course it really does read your mind!).
by richardwigley 12y ago
This title could have been written by buzzfeed. I am interested in information and not hype (unless of course it really does read your mind!).
- HNJohnC 12y agoWelcome to the internet of 2014. Seems like every second article I open fits that description lately.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoThere appears to be no allusion to mind reading in the actual article title, or in the article itself. The closest is in the photo byline about predicting desire, so the word choice appears to be down to cyphersanctus, presumably for the wooooo factor, unless wired have changed their title.
- CWuestefeld 12y agoHalf the articles I now see on Facebook have headlines like "Somebody Did Something... and You'll Be AMAZED at What Happened Next" I now have a policy that prevents me from clicking on any such link, even if it sounds appealing.
- tstrass 12y agoAre you familiar with a Chrome extension called rather? It's a great way to block out posts you don't want, like those containing buzzfeed links. The replacement content is so-so in my experience. http://www.getrather.com/ http://www.getrather.com/
- chestervonwinch 12y agoI thought at one point it would be fun to gather all the titles of this nature I could to create a hype/buzz title generator maybe using a markov model or something. No time though.
- Houshalter 12y agoThere's this: http://www.headlinesmasher.com/ http://www.headlinesmasher.com/
- dang 12y agoThe submitted title was "Forget Siri: This Radical New AI Teaches Itself and Reads Your Mind". Did Wired actually post that and then change it? Or was this just a particularly bad violation of the HN guidelines? Either way, we've reverted the title and tried to take out the remaining linkbait.