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Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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Post by protocolture »

SrslyJosh wrote: post #38

> I'm a high school student with a passion for tackling misinformation online. Inspired by the need for more reliable content verification tools, I decided to create Factful. It's an AI-powered web app I stopped reading here because LLMs do not deal in facts. LLMs are statistical models of the relationships between words. An LLM can regurgitate facts that appear in its training data, but they are incapable of disting…

(Go read the comment the developers made when they addressed this very issue upthread, the kids are smarter than you immediately decided)

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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Post by zero-sharp »

paulcole wrote: post #118
reaperman wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> “…which has the potential to do as much harm as good.” I find this is one of the more difficult things for people to learn to fully integrate into their psyche. Many people never learn to truly care about this and everything it means. They go on forever primarily caring about what’s good for them personally.

Strong disagree. Put yourself first nearly 100% of the time. Nobody cares about you so don’t think others are doing anything but prioritizing themselves. I mean look at the world. Essentially everybody puts themselves first and it’s clear as day. Don’t trick yourself into being the sap doing things for the greater good. And who cares if there’s equal potential for harm and good? The harm might be less than we imagine…

This is one of the worst things I've read on here. I hope it's a parody and that I'm just too stupid to understand it.

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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Post by paulcole »

spencerflem wrote: post #120
paulcole wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strong disagree. Put yourself first nearly 100% of the time. Nobody cares about you so don’t think others are doing anything but prioritizing themselves. I mean look at the world. Essentially everybody puts themselves first and it’s clear as day. Don’t trick yourself into being the sap doing things for the greater good. And who cares if there’s equal potential for harm and good? The harm might be less than we imagine…

That's grim. Don't light yourself on fire to keep others warm or nothing, but in my experience most people are hoping to make the world better where they can. This sort of hustle culture belief is definitely present in the world, especially among finance and us techie types, but there's tons of examples of people Not acting like this. Teachers don't do it for the pay, etc. There's a reason meaningful jobs tend to pay…

> most people are hoping to make the world better where they can.

Are they actually making the world better or just hoping they can?

Everybody in the developed world, if they wanted to make the world better, would live drastically differently because of their impact on the environment/climate change.

But it’s more fun to just say that we’re hoping to make the world better so we don’t have to acknowledge how selfish we actually are.

I’m not talking about hustle culture here. I’m talking about the selfishness we all partake in and do our best to ignore.

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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Post by teapot7 »

paulcole wrote: post #118
reaperman wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> “…which has the potential to do as much harm as good.” I find this is one of the more difficult things for people to learn to fully integrate into their psyche. Many people never learn to truly care about this and everything it means. They go on forever primarily caring about what’s good for them personally.

Strong disagree. Put yourself first nearly 100% of the time. Nobody cares about you so don’t think others are doing anything but prioritizing themselves. I mean look at the world. Essentially everybody puts themselves first and it’s clear as day. Don’t trick yourself into being the sap doing things for the greater good. And who cares if there’s equal potential for harm and good? The harm might be less than we imagine…

That's awful.

Re: Show HN: I'm 16 and building an AI based startup called Factful with friends

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Post by an_aparallel »

Ive thought about a browser extension which converts slabs of text into propositional logic,

eg: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/421312/converting-t...

I wonder if the text doesnt equate to true....you can just assume incredibility off the bat. If it passes - you can continue...

do you use this concept in this project? Curious :)

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