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Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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post #8

Seeing “Something broke, which is ironic for a made-up encyclopedia: Load failed” when trying to access some of the suggested starting points

Works on my PC. Could you gimme the url that's failing?

It’s working now, not sure what was going on earlier.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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post #82

It's pretty fun to poke at! Although it's certainly difficult to be exact, it would be neat if generated pages used the context of the pages they were linked from (ideally, all pages that link to it) to guide the direction of the page. From the ones I generated it seemed they were mostly independent.

Update: Implemented it. All new articles work that way

Very nice! Independently of this thread, I was delighted to discover the cross references between pages. It makes a big difference.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't. And, I'd think less of anyone who does make that argument. Anyone of reasonable intelligence can easily tell this is a parody of an encyclopedia. Saying this is bad for the web is like saying The Onion is bad for the web.

What would you think of a person who said that they are already convinced that an opposing view could not be correct without even hearing the arguments for it?

For the record,

> Funny, but you could argue this is actively harmful to the web.

Was not followed by an actual argument that it is harmful to the web. The comment was an assertion, not an argument.

So we are left in the inconvenient position of rejecting hypothetical arguments, and others defending the philosophical possibility that a valid argument does exist.

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post #38

This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg: https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-the-world https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders

Hit the Stumble link at the top right of all pages - its as good as a search when the whole thing is made up!

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

#129

Funny, but you could argue this is actively harmful to the web.

> you could argue Could you? I don't see it happening, but I could be wrong.

You could, in the sense that it’s not illegal or impossible. I haven’t seen anyone attempt it though.

You could argue that a person could argue any point, but I’d prefer people make the argument rather than argue about arguing it.

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