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by the_af 8mo ago
To clarify my thoughts on this, I'm not against using AI to research/hone your arguments. It's no different to using Wikipedia or googling. I don't think that's what this new HN guideline is against either. What I o
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> I'll wager, though, that your use case is much more challenging to do than mine, and that my use case will dominate in number. I don't know how comparatively challenging, I only know your use case is now (fortunately!) agai
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by the_af 8mo ago
Calm down. You're getting defensive, but it's not warranted. I'm not attacking you. > The amusing thing is that an LLM who had access to the thread would have alerted you to a basic error you're making. I didn'
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by the_af 8mo ago
To be clear, I've seen it in the wild, but not here where it's discouraged to pick on words instead of focusing on the substance of what's being said.
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by the_af 8mo ago
I never seen this, unless "literally" really clashed with the intent of the comment (as in, it changed the meaning). It's against the HN guidelines to focus on punctuation, spelling, etc, as long as the comment is understood.
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by the_af 8mo ago
> I have my standards, and I hold to them. Spellcheckers exist, you don't need an AI to change your voice. Also, if you have standards, you can always train yourself to spell better!
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> Lots of people break HN guidelines. I see it virtually every day. Yes, and AI won't help here. People will use AI to better break the guidelines. > Go and study writing and psychology Is this a case where you should have
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by the_af 8mo ago
Do you really need an automated tool to tell you whether you're breaking common sense guidelines? And why would you want to "improve your writing" for an HN comment? I think people here value raw authenticity more than polish
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by the_af 8mo ago
When do you need to spellcheck or polish an HN comment? I've never, ever, ever ever ever, seen anybody complain about spelling mistakes in a comment here. As long as you can understand the comment, people respond to it.
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by the_af 8mo ago
If you finish faster, you'll be given another task. You're not freeing yourself sooner or spending less effort, you're working the same number of hours for the same pay. Your reward is not joining the ranks of those laid off.
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by the_af 8mo ago
Yes, I understand this. I was simply making this explicit, it was a good idea to clarify that neither Losers nor Sociopaths match the common definition of those terms.
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by the_af 8mo ago
Fully agreed. I think "Loser" is a misnomer. And indeed, going by the essay, the Sociopaths can also lose big... they are willing to risk it all for personal gain, but it can end very badly for them if they miss their window, thei
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by the_af 8mo ago
> At no time did David display a lack of social skills, lack of empathy, or antisocial behaviour I don't remember David much, but let it be noted that the essay uses "sociopath" in a different way than the commonly under
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According to this theory, the Clueless are the ones who suffer the most. They invest most, they care about made up goals nobody else cares about, they play by rules everyone else thinks are dumb, they feel loyal to a company that doesn&#x27
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by the_af 8mo ago
> The losers are strictly those who put in more effort than they get in return but who cannot see it! I think those would be the losers who get promoted to clueless, at least in this metaphor. The losers who aren't clueless are pu
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by the_af 8mo ago
> Brent (Gervais) is neither a sociopath nor the top dog he thinks he is, he's a middle manager who it's implied was legitimately good at sales, but is not at all good at the role he's been promoted into because it's
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by the_af 8mo ago
As a two for one, we could also chemically excise the need to enjoy food, so we could consume some tasteless nutritive slop while spending 100% of our time in front of a computer, being that mythical 10x programmer. Just think of all the v
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by the_af 8mo ago
I don't think so, no. The person being circumcized doesn't usually get to decide or even understand what's going on.
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by the_af 8mo ago
I'm not an expert. Probably anti Western sentiment, anti any former allies of the deposed Shah, and pro Palestinian sentiment. But in reality this doesn't matter, because you're now moving the goalposts: I didn't argue t
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by the_af 8mo ago
End goal: Asimov's Solaria, where everything is done by robots and the mere thought of breathing the same air as another human becomes repulsive.
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by the_af 8mo ago
Judging from what I've read, he claims that's not what he was saying, and that it was his personal opinion at the time since he wasn't involved in any nuclear program. You're latching to one person's words, since re
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by the_af 8mo ago
Like I said, you're cherry-picking. You believe some of what the Iranians say, and not the rest. You believe some of what Trump says, but not the rest. And you do care what Trump says, since you're buying his bogus, self-contradic
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by the_af 8mo ago
> I haven't, and that is why I am not making higher-than-you [...] Then maybe stop making up hypotheticals that don't apply to me, you, or any of the nations involved? What are you hoping to achieve here? "Let's ass
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by the_af 8mo ago
> Have you ever gone through a whole a week without eating anything? Have you seen your kids go through that Have you? And did you murder your neighbor to steal their food? Did you believe the best course of action was to fight your ne
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by the_af 8mo ago
This is entering fantasy land. There's no effective way of Russia to militarily help Venezuela and strike any US carrier. Same with China. You haven't proposed any because there is no feasible way. Even if they could, such action
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by the_af 8mo ago
That's cherry-picking. The Iranians said things, Trump said some other things, and your comment chooses to selectively believe some things the Iranians said (that their nuclear program wasn't entirely dismantled, in contradiction
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> Some groups see it as their mission to dominate Eastern Europe, or the entire Middle East, or the entire southern Asian continent. Agreed that some countries seek to dominate other regions by force or threat, but you and I are not th
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> Can you learn to live without eating? Would you murder your neighbor to steal their food? Especially if you weren't really starving, just preemptively stealing their supplies? All this talk of hoarding and taking resources by fo
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> Yes, but it takes time. So be it. This doesn't excuse going to war with neighbors because you want to steal their stuff. Learn to live with yours.
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> When war becomes inevitable, we are forced to choose between morality and survival. The kind of modern wars we're discussing now are often not about survival. Often, the initiator of the war wants dominance rather than surviva

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