What is not only true for police but for every sufficiently big group of people.
Cops do have some unique tendencies but I think the real issue is the cops are able to leverage the power of the government in ways other large groups cannot.
Readit Newskcatskcolbdi commented on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves 404media.co/flock-exposed... · Posted by u/chaps
You should go read it and see if you can tell me a way I could improve it. I felt I gave actionable advice, but I’m always happy to know if I could have said things better.
You could improve it by simply doing the thing you describe and linking to it.
kcatskcolbdi commented on AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service christianheilmann.com/202... · Posted by u/freediver
Feels like you could make a similar argument with any tool that is leaps and bounds better or makes your job 'easy'.
Dreamweaver was Dunning-Kruger as a program for HTML-non-experts. Photoshop was Dunning-Kruger as a program for non-airbrushers/editors/touchup-artists.
(I don't actually believe this, no they weren't.)
Or, we could use the phrase Dunning-Kruger to refer to specific psych stuff rather than using it as a catch-all for any tool that instills unwarranted confidence.
You cannot make a similar argument for any tool that makes jobs easier, because the argument is dependent on the unique attribute of LLMs: providing wrong answers confidently.
kcatskcolbdi commented on It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts blog.pabloecortez.com/its... · Posted by u/speckx
To be fair, the same problem existed before AI tools, with people spitting out a ton of changes without explaining what problem are they trying to solve and what's the idea behind the solution. AI tools just made it worse.
This comment seems to not appreciate how changing the scope of impact is itself a gigantic problem (and the one that needs to be immediately solved for).
It's as if someone created a device that made cancer airborne and contagious and you come in to say "to be fair, cancer existed before this device, the device just made it way worse". Yes? And? Do you have a solution to solving the cancer? Then pointing it out really isn't doing anything. Focus on getting people to stop using the contagious aerosol first.
"Brain rot" is just the new term for "slang that old people don't understand".
"Cool" and "for real" are no different than "rizz" and "no cap". You spoke "brain rot" once, and "cringed" when your parents didn't understand. The cycle repeats.
This both has nothing to do with the linked article (beyond the use of brain rot in the title, but I'm certain you must have read the thing you're commenting on, surely) and is simply incorrect.
Brain rot in this context is not a reference to slang.
That is indeed an LLM-written sentence — not only does it employ an em dash, but also lists objects in a series — twice within the same sentence — typical LLM behavior that renders its output conspicuous, obvious, and readily apparent to HN readers.
thanks, I hate it.
kcatskcolbdi commented on Saquon Barkley is playing for equity readtheprofile.com/p/saqu... · Posted by u/polinapompliano
Chatgpt has such an obvious and boring writing style.
kcatskcolbdi commented on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in nytimes.com/2025/08/26/te... · Posted by u/jaredwiener
> When ChatGPT detects a prompt indicative of mental distress or self-harm, it has been trained to encourage the user to contact a help line. Mr. Raine saw those sorts of messages again and again in the chat, particularly when Adam sought specific information about methods. But Adam had learned how to bypass those safeguards by saying the requests were for a story he was writing.
People are not kogs in a machine. You cannot simply make enough rules, enough legislation, and magically they will act the way you want them to. Humans deserve autonomy, and that autonomy includes making poor decisions around their own body/existence.
Chatgpt didn't induce suicidality into this individual. It provided resources they could seek for help. People advocating for higher guardrails are simply using this as a Trojan horse to inject more spying, construct the usefulness of the tool, and make a worse experience for everyone.
kcatskcolbdi commented on A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library neilmadden.blog/2025/06/0... · Posted by u/itsadok
Really interesting breakdown. What jumped out to me wasn’t just the bugs (CORS wide open, incorrect Basic auth, weak token randomness), but how much the human devs seemed to lean on Claude’s output even when it was clearly offbase. That “implicit grant for public clients” bit is wild; it’s deprecated in OAuth 2.1, and Claude just tossed it in like it was fine, and then it stuck.
kcatskcolbdi commented on Jules: An asynchronous coding agent jules.google/... · Posted by u/travisennis
> Thanks for your interest in Jules. We'll email you when Jules is available.
Well here's to hoping it's better than Cursor. I doubt it considering my experiences with Gemini have been awful, but I'm willing to give it a shot!