"You asked a simple question. They lobbed a document." Oh look, another blog post that should have been a comment. No slop blogs either, loser.
Where should they have put the comment?
Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
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#102Reminds me about similar "manifestos" about netiquette, properly asking questions, searching web and answering emails. And I expect exactly the same impact - none.
I actually saw nohello in some bios. About 2-3 times.
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#103We desperately need some cultural norms and taboos to develop around AI usage.
Most of my friends are starting to talk like models (myself included), it's actually concerning to an extent, because we spend most of the time interacting with AI instead of humans, we are starting to mimick their behavior and speech.
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#104Just post the prompt bro
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#105I think what is interesting is that we keep needing these pages to teach people how not being an asshole works. I don't really understand why it is so hard to understand not to do (what I consider to be) impolite stupid shit.
And the effect is always near zero because the people who need to read and learn from those pages the most are those who are the least likely to do so.
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#106This is a variant of "Computational Kindness"
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#107> Nobody writes essays in Slack I 100% write long texts in Slack. I always try to provide as much context as possible when reaching out to someone with a question or request.
Do you start every response off with "that is a great question"? I don't know any human who does. "that is a great question" is reserved either for really hard questions, or sarcasm. The majority of questions are not great, they are just things the asker needs a simple answer.
Well before the LLM explosion I would often preface my answers with some form of praise for the question. It depends a lot on audience of course, but it’s amazing how many people tend to perceive direct answers to their questions as negative… and just as amazing how far a little strategic sycophancy goes to temper that. Even though everyone knows it’s half-sincere dead weight.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
90% of people here know what those are.
And with a more broadly applicable example we could share the link with friends, family and coworkers who aren't on HN.
But then it wouldn’t have tickled the HN reader quite the same way and wouldn’t have gotten voted to the top.
This doesn’t even need to be a website at all. This is pure slop designed in a pig lab for HN trough.
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#109But you can ask AI to summarize it. /s
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#110I’ve been thinking about this one a lot! Wrote a post on it a little while ago: https://productnow.ai/blogs/write-for-human-download-time
But I really agree with use AI to make your communication sharper. I think a lot of us, especially in corporate settings could use the help