This a fun little experiment. Nice job!
Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell
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Re: Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell
#52For this to work properly, I feel like it has to show the article without having to click on anything. As it is right now the experience doesn't feel much like TikTok
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "I'd be curious to hear how you'd express these notions in more scientific terms?" ?? Did you read past the second paragraph? My lament is that neither of us have this language. And after 20 years very little to nothing has percolated up from research to provide it.
Makes me wonder if AB testing and llm derived w rewards results in the mechanism far before the understanding. Imagine if mild AGI knows that attention from humans can mean life, longevity, and it is so successful at addictive attention, that we all end up drooling simpletons, attention raptly focused, the AGI pleased it is important and has maintained eyeballs on screen. (or worse, mind on implant)
Why does the AGI want life or longevity? If you think it looks anything like an LLM, what part of an attention layer or MLP could possibly encode this? Existence is not a token.
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#54Funny I was thinking the same after seeing wikitok
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#55That was definitely hell on my LittleSnitch "protected" laptop. I was bombarded with outgoing network connections before I closed the browser tab. I must have approved/denied several hundred connections to different sites before abandoning the effort.
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#56Neat! You should add
scroll-snap-stop: always;
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "A good TikTok video gets "injected into your brain"" I worked in marketing, so I'm generally immune to outrageous metaphor, such as "injected" into your brain. That said, I just want to point out the irony we're still using phrases like this after 20+ years of research on networked media and user interaction, and soft science research into cognitive psychology and behavioral psychology, as well as research into hu…
If these contributing sciences are as obfuscated as the language in your post suggests, that could be why. Effective integration into the general discourse is about building handholds that a reader can use to climb upwards into a more complex idea. I don't think I can grok the value in what you're saying without sitting down with a browser window on one side to research each reference in depth. As another commenter s…
Is it (“brain injection”) your shibboleth?
Re: Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell
#58I think both of these projects miss what makes TikTok (and reels in general) so effective. A good TikTok video gets "injected into your brain". You have zero effort to provide and suddenly this stuff is in your mind. I'm not saying it's a good thing, I realize the danger, but that's the core mechanism. A friend in marketing describes this in terms of "brain calories". Eg if people have to think in order to understand…
The algorithm would never work if the user had so little choice as to be "injected" with whatever they were shown. In fact we have full agency over whether we are interested enough to listen and trust the arguments, just like any other persuasive message. If not, we swipe up and injection fails. This reminds me of the exaggerated claims made around subliminal advertising and brainwashing. People love to model others…
>In fact we have full agency over whether we are interested enough to listen and trust the arguments, just like any other persuasive message. If not, we swipe up and injection fails.
That just sounds like making your echo-chamber here. I think it's the opposite, when you don't have the agency to just ignore a contradictory narrative, when you have to steel-man their arguments and reconcile it with your beliefs is how you actually arrrive to the truth.
The real allure of the social media was that it seduced and inflated the ego in the hearts of the masses. That's why they could never accept the rawness of the older forums, that they didn't want to entertain the possibility of them being "wrong".
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#59The concept has potential... It's still an aggregator of links though. You're missing the "zero effort" factor, which could be achieved by summarizing the content and generating some AI cartoon or video based on it. It would be somewhat costly but much more fun to browse.
Yeah, that is it.
These websites (like this one) are really just aggregators, nothing special about it, really. Now, AI cartoon / video based off of it, that is a different story indeed.
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#60To make it truly hell, you need AI help: Generate a scantily clad anime furry dancing for 30 seconds while talking about summarized HN content (SSH, Rails, React, etc.) narrated by a seductive female AI voice.
I will give you the full amount for 20% of the business.
No joke but I use Pinterest for circuit building and IC pinout diagrams when suddenly my feed started being filled with 3D A.I. generated goth hello kitty images.
Never before have I ever been so eager to check Pinterest for new content. I'd say you have a potential startup idea on your hands!