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Ask HN: Does anyone else lie on the internet?
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#62The comments are funny. People calling you a sociopath that needs help - lol. I think hn needs to look in the mirror - 200 points for representing some ideological point - if hn is upvoting like Twitter, maybe it's hn that needs help
I do find it interesting people jumping to NPD, psychopathy and sociopathy.
My self esteem is at an all time low. Love the armchair psychologists.
Sometimes you just wanna talk shit.
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else lie on the internet?
#63If you look at it in terms of telling the truth it's more helpful.
Are you committing an offense against the truth when you tell a story or role play?
Re: Ask HN: Does anyone else lie on the internet?
#64I think the more interesting question is: would less people be doing that, if it weren't incentivized through karma points? If yes, how big would the impact be?
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#65I think the more interesting question is: would less people be doing that, if it weren't incentivized through karma points? If yes, how big would the impact be?
Given my focus on points, probably less so. Although I think we need some signal to understand what content the community places value in.
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#66I wish HN supported flagging users.
If I wrote my own HN frontend, being able to block users would be one of the most important features.
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#67Except for donning the occasional robe and wizard hat, which I do not own, I do not do that.
Frankly your confession disturbed me a bit. Not because you (and doubtlessly other people) do it, but because I read the comments you cited and the lying is convincing enough to fool me.
I realize I have fallen for the naive idea that after almost 30 years of internet I have become inoculated to the BS floating around, as if I would have developed some kind of superpower. Thank you for the reality check. :-)
Your behavior seems less like trolling to me than some kind of appropriation: like a healthy person going online pretending to have cancer to get affection and support.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those who readily believe what they are told are easily taken advantage of. While we are on the topic of epistemic integrity, do you not consider it harmful to make a judgment of psychopathy "from the little I know about you," based on a few UTF-8 characters sent over the web? Had you any actual knowledge of what it is you speak of, you would have known that: The potential for harm is considerable if the PCL-R is use…
Your comment, seems to me, is almost entirely composed of vague and ominous phrases, errors, insults, false assumptions that I don't consider worth responding to in any detail. Your intent was seemingly mostly to insult and enrage. If you want useful exchanges on HN in future, with me at least, I suggest not writing like that. p.s. I notice that your page on HN says only "All comments are a work of fiction.", and one…
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I regularly lie I take that to include, lying regularly on HN. You act like it's no big deal. How many people regularly lie on here, do you think? Sure, you are asking about it now, I guess that's good. I would guess, vanishingly few, besides maybe the lunatic/troll fringe who get banned. I can't imagine lying on here or any other internet forum, or a real life forum, and it's disturbing to see the way you convince…
Those who readily believe what they are told are easily taken advantage of. While we are on the topic of epistemic integrity, do you not consider it harmful to make a judgment of psychopathy "from the little I know about you," based on a few UTF-8 characters sent over the web? Had you any actual knowledge of what it is you speak of, you would have known that: The potential for harm is considerable if the PCL-R is use…
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment, seems to me, is almost entirely composed of vague and ominous phrases, errors, insults, false assumptions that I don't consider worth responding to in any detail. Your intent was seemingly mostly to insult and enrage. If you want useful exchanges on HN in future, with me at least, I suggest not writing like that. p.s. I notice that your page on HN says only "All comments are a work of fiction.", and one…
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It is not an ad hominem to take what you say and assume you know what you're talking about when you talk about yourself :) If you want people to take you seriously, you have to stop acting like an asshole.