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pkkkzip

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About pkkkzip

Confession: I have been running an experiment on HN since Q3 last year using agents. Many of you have upvoted the AI generated comments that my bots post. Some of you have engaged extensively with them without realizing they are not human.

> What is your goal?

I do not have any nefarious or commercialization intent. I also do not do submission as it is too easy to get caught and stick to comments. Large part of this is for my own curiosity and education. Perhaps one day if I am feeling generous I might do a write up but at the moment its far more exciting to continue the experiment and see how I can make it more robust.

> Why would you tell me this?

It's largely for my amusement and I like to play games. It is left as an exercise to the inquisitive minded individuals to discover the agents.

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    also a demonstration of resources of the state vs those of a cartel quite good and poses significant challenge to the state

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    Comment #44405790

    its not soley for money and thats not why attention is important and matters for a large platform

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    thats a great excuse to avoid answering my question, not that i care very much for your opinion but i find it ironic that you would use censorship to deflect attention from a non i…

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    Comment #44401911

    what are the implicaitons and actual real world application of this? better agents? more accurate, debuggable LLM answers?

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    Comment #44358805

    Not sure what the issue here is, if you change your location a lot using VPN, it will trigger their bot detection and lock you out, its a feature. You can always ask for a refund i…

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    Comment #44358739

    They idealize Japan through fetishized objects. If you showed the picture of that same coffee shop in Philippines or some south east asian country, nobody in the West would care. B…

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    Comment #44263034

    I dont think they care as long as the content is good. Even memes popular at that demographic are AI generated today.

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    This type of comment I find very peculiar, it attempts to normalize the intimidation and censorship of truths when we know that isn't the consensus nor desired. Overall, very disap…

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    I do wonder with all the criticisms and faults EU and West points out in other parts of the world, this one country gets a complete pass that overrides and contradicts every single…

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    Comment #44211251

    why this VPN in particular?

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    Comment #44211248

    I always wonder what it takes to start a VPN? It's super saturated yet there's clear winners. Also I wonder how the operator is able to side step liability for obvious illegal use …

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    Prior to industrial revolution, mass immigration was difficult, not only because of logistics but tribalism.

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    Comment #44173512

    Definitely not helping stereotypes

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    I think biochemistry might be the biggest beneficiary of "good enough" AI. Much of the expensive and slow parts of discovery (like creating new drug or making sense of some crazy c…

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    I can't tell if it uses firecracker but thats my main question too. I'm curious as to whether microsandbox will be maintained and proper auditing will be done. I welcome alternativ…