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HN kills lots of posts. I try to be careful about my online footprint (since HN posts are forever), and try to switch to new accounts every so often. It's no use anymore, HN just k…

Which post are you looking at? I just posted the numbers for the first post I could find that was the same across X, Bluesky, and Facebook (a little hard since the feeds for all th…

I just checked their Facebook and X page. The X page is getting much more eyes. For instance, they posted their article "The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Bl…

> Now, turn on showdead. Those same comments, that users were expected to interact with as if they were made in good faith by real people, litter every submission's comment section…

True, after you visit a country where the cities are entirely safe and there aren't really any bad parts, it's disheartening to return to American cities where people say: "It's re…

The problems I've run into is both people giving fake citations (the citations don't actually justify the claim that's being made in the article), and people giving real citations,…

> If you cheat, you should get a zero. How is this controversial. Because the teacher was knowingly giving zeroes to students who didn't cheat, and expecting them to take it upon t…

It's an incredible abuse of power to intentionally mark innocent students' answers wrong when they're correct. Just to solve your own problem, that you may very well be responsible…

> And a video game is exactly that: a video game. You can play it or leave it. No one is claiming you can't walk away from LLM's, or re-prompt them. The discussion was whether they…

> I didn't use that word, and that's not what I'm concerned about. That was what the "meaningless" comment you took issue with was about. > My point is that an LLM is not inherentl…

> Of course, you can simply replace employees or employers. You can also avoid other people you don't like. But if you want to maintain an ongoing relationship with someone, for ex…

> But it's still an LLM. It's still being sycophantic: it's only "challenging" because that's what you want. This seems tautological to the point where it's meaningless. It's like …

That's the default chatbot behavior. Many of these people appear to be creating their own personalities for the chatbots, and it's not too difficult to make an opinionated and chal…

If there's a widespread and growing heroin epidemic that's already left 1/3 of society addicted, and a small group of people are able to get off of it by switching to cigarettes, I…

I've watched people using dating apps, and I've heard stories from friends. Frankly, AI boyfriends/girlfriends look a lot healthier to me than a lot of the stuff currently happenin…

It very well might be genuine surprise. Most people from other countries have an extremely hard time understanding why most U.S. cities allow people to openly break the law in fron…

All social media (including HN) is horrible in some ways. And they all suffer from too many people being overly credulous to random comments. But the problem with over credulity go…

> For those who don't attend the prestigious universities with large endowments, average in-state state-run University tuition is under $10K, though again a large percentage of stu…

People tend to do this justification behavior where they claim their dopamine hits are good for them/their health/society, when in actuality it's detrimental. Almost no political j…

And Reddit's far more tightly censored than Tik Tok. Most subs won't even allow open discussion of certain hotly debated topics because the Reddit admins have threatened to shut th…