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by slg 9mo ago
>For example, if you close a youtube browser tab with a comment half written it will pop up an `alert("You will lose your comment if you close this window")`. It does this if the comment is a 2 page essay or "asdfasdf&quot
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by slg 9mo ago
I don't know, I just searched "Grok" on HN and the 3 most popular stories of the last week have all been flagged killed while having 75+ points and 30+ comments. I can't imagine there are many single world searches that
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by slg 10mo ago
Any thoughts about the issues raised up thread? This article being flagged looks to me to be a clear indication of abuse of the HN flagging system. Or do you think there are justifiable reasons why this article shouldn't be linked on
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by slg 10mo ago
How do you define “political” and what about the story of an AI posting CSAM do you think qualifies?
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by slg 10mo ago
>it sounds like significant infra would be needed for a product that generates no revenue This just describes HN as a whole, so if this is the concern, might as well shut the site down.
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by slg 10mo ago
> how can the moderation team reasonably stop bad actors from downvoting it There are all sorts of approaches that a moderation team could take if they actually believed this was a problem. For example, identify the users who regularly
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by slg 10mo ago
This story belongs on this site regardless of politics. It is specifically about both AI and social media. Downvoting/flagging this story is much more politically motivated than posting/upvoting it.
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by slg 10mo ago
I imagine I'm not the only one using HN less because both articles like this and comments like this are clearly being downvoted and/or flagged by a subset of users motivated by politics and the HN admin team seemingly doesn't
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by slg 10mo ago
As someone old enough to have seen the US invade too many countries, I'm struck by the lack of effort put into justifying this sort of military action these days. There is going to be a lot of debate over whether this specific operatio
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by slg 10mo ago
>I don't think anyone here tried to use it that way That's certainly the impression you gave with your response. You didn't engage with the clear example of harmful behavior or debate what various numbers on either side o
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by slg 10mo ago
It seems like a misunderstanding of utilitarianism to use it as an excuse to shut down any complaints about something as long as the overall societal benefit is positive. If we actually engage with these issues, we can potentially shift th
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by slg 10mo ago
>you can just disagree with reasons rather than this performative rhetoric This is such a bizarre trend that seems to have gotten much worse recently. I don't know if it's dropping empathy levels or rising self-importance, but
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by slg 10mo ago
I'm reminded of the Letter on Justice and Open Debate[1] that Bari Weiss signed only a few years ago, now she's spiking stories like this one on CECOT for showing the current administration in a negative light. I also wonder if th
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by slg 10mo ago
It's interesting that people are responding like this rather than answering my question. I know how democracy works and that includes the occasional instances of tyranny of the majority. That still doesn't address my original que
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by slg 10mo ago
>books that schools refuse to carry in their libraries You are just fundamentally wrong on the facts here. This list is specifically books that were removed from libraries due to outside forces. I'm not worried about school librar
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by slg 10mo ago
I wonder how the proponents of banning books like this don't have an "Are we the baddies?" moment. What precedent is there for history to look kindly on this type of behavior? Is there a single fiction book that you can poi
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by slg 10mo ago
I don't know, maybe they are colluding, but it is funny to default to that assumption over both platforms just delivering you the same content because you have the same behavior across both apps.
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by slg 10mo ago
I'm very hesitant to make those sorts of accusations, but the writing has multiple hallmarks of LLMs and this is one of three articles posted today by the same author to that blog before noon their local time. I guess this is just wha
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by slg 10mo ago
Dyslexia is just the overall name for a learning disability that causes difficulty with reading or writing. There is no unified cause or group of causes, it's all based on symptoms. Therefore, the only things that will "work&quot
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by slg 10mo ago
The patent system. I know someone will respond detailing why the patent system is pro-business, but it is objectively government regulation that puts restrictions on new technology, so it's proof that regulation of that sort is at lea
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by slg 10mo ago
And this is a perfect example of how some people respond to LLMs, bending over backwards to justify the output like we are some kids around a Ouija board. The LLM isn't misinterpreting the text, it's just representing people who
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by slg 10mo ago
This is a perfect example of the power and problems with LLMs. I took the narcissistic approach of searching for myself. Here's a grade of one of my comments[1]: >slg: B- (accurate characterization of PH’s “networking & facade”
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by slg 10mo ago
>Why exactly doesn't the service revenue matter again? For some pedantic reason of Apple being metaphorically similar to a brick and mortar store? You seem to operating under the notion that anything that isn't a device sold is
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by slg 10mo ago
As I said elsewhere, it really depends on the definition of "service". Subscriptions make up a relatively small minority of that service revenue. For example, 30 seconds of searching suggests that Apple Music's revenue in 2
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by slg 10mo ago
>it's not like they aren't a services juggernaut. It depends. I guess you can argue this is true purely from scale. However, we should also keep in mind there are a lot of different things that Apple and tech companies in gener
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by slg 10mo ago
I feel like you're getting at something different here, but my conclusion is that maybe the problem is the approach of wanting to monetize each interaction. Almost every company today wants their primary business model to be as a servi
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by slg 10mo ago
And that is a relatively harmless academic pursuit. What about topics that can lead to true danger and violence? "You're exactly right, you organized and paid for the date, that created a social debt and she failed to meet her ob
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by slg 11mo ago
This comment feels like it was made outside the context of the existing conversation. The comment I replied to was calling all charity virtue signaling and not just vocal giving. But either way, I personally don’t think a library is any les
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by slg 11mo ago
It is always enlightening when people criticizing "virtue signaling" accidentally reveal that the problem they have is not the signaling, it's the having virtue.
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by slg 11mo ago
You're making me repeat myself multiple times now. I don't know what else I can say. HN would need to rank posts by a combination of upvotes and chronology. That is how they "float popular content to the top". You do

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