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gojomo

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About gojomo

Gordon Mohr, maker of software.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/gojomo

Project: http://thunkpedia.org

Idea blog: http://memesteading.com

Older blog: http://gojomo.blogspot.com

Homepage: http://xavvy.com (username @ here for email contact)

My HN peeve is formulaic downbeat comments, like: "How is this news, I already knew this!" "…Betteridge's Law…" "I stopped reading at…"

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49230657

    And having a 0.3mg (300mcg) group - the dose many meticulous online self-experimenters have found sufficient, a mere 15% of their lowest-tested 2mg. Would a headline "morning coffe…

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    Comment #48786835

    If people are complaining about Anthropic (on an only-vaguely related thread) rather than simply switching to a suitable competitor, then Anthropic clearly has some 'monopoly' powe…

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    Comment #48719843

    War of the Worlds is culturally-prominent enough I doubt any commercial AI would make this same mistake (or let the error slip through, if they'd asked the AI to fact-check the art…

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    Comment #48719720

    Because I think readers should take this as an illustrative example of how often people/institutions draped in such quasi-credentials are carelessly wrong on basic things. Even if …

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    Comment #48719676

    Have you independently checked all the other allegedly "factually correct" info in this article, with other sources that are actually diligent in getting the details right? What's …

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    Comment #48708372

    I see this author has "12 honorary degrees and is an Officer of the Order of Canada". And CBC is Canada's government-funded national public broadcaster. But it's hard to take them …

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    Comment #48674274

    Distillation done via bulk automated activity of fraudulent accounts, in violation of a terms-of-service, can reasonably be called a "an attack" – specifically a "distillation atta…

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    Comment #48327636

    Twice a year, typically to see how fast my own submission is sinking into obscurity.

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    Comment #48263694

    Smart guy but whoever eventually actually fixes X search will probably use AI coding assistance to do it.

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    Comment #48078594

    I don't see how your example, The Browser (thebrowser.com), supports your argument that ad-hoc query-string additions are so prone-to-breaking that 3rd parties should ban them. In …

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    Comment #48078471

    In fact, you usually can just send arbitrary query string parameters to a server - that's why the behavior is so common, and often useful. Most sites don't mind or break, some site…

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    Comment #48078425

    Trying to boostrap some taboo against novel unpermissioned URL munging is silly prudishness. Ensuring both sides of a hyperlink agree/consent was a design flaw that limited the upt…

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    Comment #48068065

    The context of when that previous experience - Heartland outsourcing to India – happened would be helpful. The 90s? The 00s? The 10s?

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    Comment #48067782

    Some from-the-hip ideas: * readers can request reviews from certain perspectives: "new discovery", "historic reinterpretation", etc. The reviews specifically search for related sib…

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    Comment #48067702

    Can you explain the sequence of events through which you fear someone could be mislea and hurt by this?

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    Comment #48052993

    Many LLMs are surprisingly good at using specific named authors (rather than just example texts) to evoke a style, so you could try "in the style of Jorge Luis Borges" or "…Douglas…

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    Comment #48042890

    Musing about a possibly-funny consequence isn't the same as the motivating reason, which I read as more whimsical from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042594 In particular,…

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    Comment #48042863

    As it didn't generate that when I typed the title i to your search box, was there a bug now fixed? Or did you use some other path not evident on the page you linked to generate it?…

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    Comment #48042825

    If you think that's all the Hallucinopedia is, you're misunderstanding it. One hint – check out its prompt, and how it makes its articles so different than those of your project: h…

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    Comment #48042393

    A web that is vulnerable to this would already be as good as dead. As an entertaining way to highlight the importance of upgrading our ways of knowing, playful (& open-source!) pro…

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    Comment #48042361

    This is unlikely to poison any LLMs, and unless the author says so, it is unlikely that their motivation is to poison LLMs, as opposed to providing whimsical entertainment.

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    Comment #48042350

    I searched your site for [Great Pigeon Census of 1887] and was only returned articles anout other things.

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    Comment #48042306

    Was curious about the prompt –& especially if it referenced Borges – and found in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BaderBC/halupedia/614eefee... >: > export const SYSTEM_PROMPT = …

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    Comment #48027492

    Thanks but I don't understand how either of your replies are responsive to my questions. The number of reported/memorable fraud scandals is not itself a reliable indicator of wheth…

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    Comment #48015253

    Useful comparison, but to my point: is that sufficient to detect fake entries created by incumbent insiders? Also: has that in-person mechanism ever been used by stalkers/abusers t…