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by teiferer 13d ago
> We are going from the era of manual, line-by-line mental model transcription to one where software engineers can focus on data structures, software architecture and algorithms. That exact sentence could have been said 20 years as well
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by teiferer 14d ago
Yeah, lots of redheads were burned back in the day because people "felt" things.
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by teiferer 14d ago
All true. But question is whether the positive consequences outweigh the negative. That may be the case, but it may not be. I don't find it obvious and not considering this is careless.
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by teiferer 14d ago
Sure, filter whatever fits your taste. But it's not slop, so "unslop.news" may not be the perfect name.
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by teiferer 15d ago
Currently there is an article about feeling sad w.r.t. AI on the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49661506 That one is filtered out too. Surely nobody is going to claim that it is slop?
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by teiferer 15d ago
> if most of a user or author's writing is consistently human-generated, then I think we are very happy giving them the benefit of the doubt if one article or snippet flags the actually good ai detector I would agree to that approac
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by teiferer 15d ago
Ah thanks. Fair.
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by teiferer 15d ago
Yes AI slop is prevalent. But the casualties that get thrown under the bus are also real, don't you agree? Is it really worth it to sacrifice those? In the name of the larger good? I'm arguing that we're losing something by d
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by teiferer 15d ago
> You actually didn't. The construct is slightly different. Well I know that I did, so you are wrong with that claim, which sheds a strong (negative) light on other statements of fact that you posted in this discussion. You may disa
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by teiferer 15d ago
> I will donate $100 to charity if I made a false accusation That's honorable but not how accusations work. There is a first level indirect effect of painting somebody in a light that damages the reputation of their work or their pe
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by teiferer 15d ago
Me neither, but just running around accusing random folks of things is not going to help. To the contrary. If a real author doing real work with a lot of effort risks being accused of things they didn't do and just dismissed, you'
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by teiferer 15d ago
Have you actually read the article? They point out multiple times that they like the Waymo ride and would use one again and loved it. It's not a Waymo-bashing article, it cautions against the long term effects on research. And here you
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by teiferer 15d ago
They are overrepresented in HN discussions for sure as there is an over-reliance on them that just aims to shut down discussions. Which is ironic since they are a tool folks are trusting blindly supposedly used to argue against tool use wit
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by teiferer 15d ago
That sounds like a great theory but is not consistent with the observation that until not too long ago, diesel used to be cheaper. How do you explain that? That's the problem with hindsight theories, especially if only using a limit ho
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by teiferer 15d ago
What is "a Claude sentence"?
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by teiferer 15d ago
Have you also scanned earlier work of the author with pangram to establish a baseline? Pangram is not without problems.
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by teiferer 15d ago
Do you have more evidence than this? I'd honestly like to know. I don't like AI slop like everybody else, but I'm also growing skeptical of the very fast determinations that sth is supposedly made by LLM just because it uses
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by teiferer 15d ago
> But you can’t have all things at once: you can’t move at speed with AI, collaborate effectively, and understand what is going on as an expert would. It is not physically possible for a human brain. I think the article's point is m
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by teiferer 15d ago
> Beautifully written essay. Agreed! Great flow, structure, no BS, really good! I would wager this didn't use LLM help to be written. Though if I'm wrong I'd really like to know and would be very impressed. (And if I'
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by teiferer 15d ago
Time for a category at the top? Next to new, jobs, ...? Something like "sans AI". I like adjacent articles though. Today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656496 was a delight. It would be sad if such article
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by teiferer 16d ago
Is flagging and downvoting really the right tool to express disagreement of opinion here? I disagree very much with what you just wrote, but I would not flag it. For the next time, instead of scrolling, you can just press the little "-
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by teiferer 16d ago
From a purely utilitariatic POV, understanding your environment helps avoiding mistakes that mess it up which then indirectly impacts you too since you depend on your environment. So, more understanding improves policy making. Second, what
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by teiferer 16d ago
Irony: Nowhere on that page does it say how large that octopus actually is. An inch? 2 meters? Unclear. To save you the google search, it's about "tennis ball size" according to https://30a.com/larger-pacific-
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by teiferer 16d ago
Git on an encrypted volume?
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by teiferer 16d ago
Well, I like a good story, there is big potential in this long form stuff that's more than a tweet or two. There can be a great reward when the crux is revealed after building a foundation and then looking at it from different angles.
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by teiferer 16d ago
Um, speed of light and gravity are so fundamentally linked that nothing you see would look like that. Just changing speed of light but not adjusting anything else makes little sense.
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by teiferer 16d ago
2/3 down the article I gave up. What are you trying to tell me? What is this revolution about? How are agent things fundamentally different and how are they being solved? What is this "second coming"? Also, why "second&q
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by teiferer 17d ago
Iphone 15 counting as "small form factor" says a lot.
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by teiferer 17d ago
Could you elaborate? Goodharting what metric exactly and how was that different earlier? Isn't the distribution of shares among the population instead of just a few private investors a good thing? Democratizing in a sense, everybody ca
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by teiferer 17d ago
Absolutely, the initial prompt appears sufficient. But this is about the thing screwing up and the user giving corrective instructions. Saying essentially "are you dumb" is not helpful for neither a human nor a machine if you thin

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