Very nice idea and well implemented, I feel now confused which is the real and which is the simulation.
Works like a charm.
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#222This is cool. I used it on my personal project to showcase. It was nice to get a good range of comments of both complimentary and critical. Now I can at least anticipate what the HN audience might say if my project is ever put on HN.
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#223NUTS NEWS: https://news.ysimulator.run/item/3475
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
The comments there are hilarious
> If you're going to post pet photos, at least learn how to expose properly. That shadow detail is completely crushed. > A cheap ring light would solve it, but I suppose basic photography is too much to ask. > Next time, try shooting in RAW and editing in Lightroom. Even a cat deserves decent composition.
I agree with these comments.
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#225I honestly struggled to tell if the top comment on that thread was generated or real. It captured the specific type of "dismissive pedantry" we see here so perfectly.
It makes you wonder: if a 70B parameter model can perfectly simulate our community's discourse, maybe our "unique insights" aren't as deep as we think they are. The simulation isn't passing the Turing test; we are failing it.
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#226This is actually a surprisingly effective way to get a broad range of feedback on topics. I realise this was built for fun, but this whole discussion dynamic is why I value HN in the first place - it never occured to me to try and reproduce it using LLMs. I am suddenly really interested in how I might build a similar workflow for myself - I use LLMs as a "sounding board" a lot, to get a feeling for how ideas are valu…
I find that prompting LLMs "Give me a diverse range of comments, and allow the commenters to argue with each other" works surprisingly well for simulating stuff like this.
Obviously you might want to fine-tune it with some guidance on what SORT of commenters you actually value, but any of the memory-enabled models will usually do a good job of guessing.
Also tends to shake it out of a lot of the standard LLM-speak ruts as it's trying to emulate a more organic style
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#228> I'm rewriting my DNA in Rust
https://news.ysimulator.run/item/3725
None of them even questioned the idea
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#229I like the responses:
https://news.ysimulator.run/item/3770
>As for extinction timing, it’s naive to assume you can predict humanity’s end point without modeling every possible existential risk branch. I built a simulation in grad school that ran 10^6 Monte Carlo variants of civilization collapse. Spoiler: entropy wins eventually. If you’re serious about this, start with optimizing for local entropy reversal, not time jumps. Otherwise you’re just playing with thought experiments.
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#230Unfortunately, it appears to have been vandalised. Pretty much every post on the front page now is one with the same title of "{N-word} {gay slur}".
[Edit: Looks like it's been fixed.]