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Readit Newscolbyn commented on · Posted by u/kaungsetlin
I can’t get downvoted further but as a friendly FYI this page can’t be opened in iOS safari (too many redirects).
But I was thinking some time ago I disabled algorithmically prompted content even though it had its advantages for work related content… In some ways the transition was like quitting smoking. I kept going back to such platforms, getting a blank page, closing the page, then repeating some time later and so on.
AI helped me write the documentation because it does a better job than I ever could. I honestly wish I’d had AI to help me write my screenplay ten years ago.
Oh I guess I stand corrected. I sometimes wish AI wasn't a thing because any natural talent for writing has now been rendered almost meaningless.
>ai description
>ai code
>ai comments
Why should we presume it’s an AI description? The writing seems reasonable enough. Some people are more naturally inclined towards articulate writing than others (seems like projection) and furthermore the OP claims to be a screenwriter.
> There were entire classes of Hacker News submissions that I refused to read the comments on. Including the comments about this article, should such comments ever materialize.
The author has made the correct call. There's a pretty deep irony that all the top-level comments at the time of this writing are about how the article is too long. It's quite clearly not trying to succinctly convince you of a point, it's meant to be a piece of genuinely human writing, and enjoyed (or not!) on the basis of that.
Design can go a long way when reading long form text. If someone here is in contact with the author please tell them to improve the typography; most notably smaller and justified text for mobile phones. Other designers could probably weigh in. I’m not an expert, but well designed text goes a long way towards comfortable reading.
Apart from that, content wise a preliminary abstract is nice to have. I do like how the author provides a table of contents.
colbyn commented on America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/MindGods
The title could have been a line out of Dune.
It’s interesting that many of us myself included once thought that the butlerian jihad was silly until now. Frank Herbert wrote something that is particularly prescient.
(Usually writers are just a decade ahead of their time. Whatever Podcasters are talking about today, has usually already been discussed in literature a decade ago. Prediction markets come to mind. Socially, over vs under population as discussed in popular books like the rationale optimist or the accidental superpower.)
For context there are many theories for why younger generations are less “cognitively capable” than older generations. Nowadays we call it the reverse Flynn effect. IMO this article is nitpicking, probably confirmation bias at play.
colbyn commented on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/Cyphase
The personal attacks I saw were against different people, not just one. In a lot of cases it's just routine internet cynicism, which is always amplified against unusually successful or prominent people.
There's also a lot of fear and anger about the AI tsunami these days, among certain user cohorts, and that's an amplifier as well.
On HN, personal attacks aren't allowed regardless of who's being attacked, and comments are asked to make their substantive points thoughtfully and not be cynical or snarky. Here's one guideline:
"Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative."
Okay I see. Are people being attacked for engaging in AI research/dev irrespective of their character or other personal attributes?