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How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#101

Post by mrtesthah »

ronnier wrote: post #73
Iuz wrote: post #70

Every time I open one of the multiple daily posts about Anthropic or OpenAI and read the comments, I get this weird feeling. Astroturfing is obviously common in political spaces, whether to normalize certain views, manufacture consensus, or shift public opinion. It seems to me that HN would be a prime target for tech companies to do the same thing, and lately I can't shake the impression that there's a lot of it goin…

Generally the comments are heavily anti AI to the point where it almost seems like it’s a foreign adversary trying to mold the public opinion to be anti ai to slow the progress of AI advancement in the USA

I'm not anti-AI; I'm anti-centralization of power. If the Chinese models were closed source and developed with the same strategy as the US labs then I'd be rooting against them, too.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#102

Post by mentalgear »

ronnier wrote: post #75
yaseer wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The death of HN has been lamented since at least 2007 (in addition to the cliche that it's turning into Reddit, mentioned in the guidelines). So far, it hasn't died nor turned into Reddit.

The political posts have definitely increased and the front page is increasingly filled with negative sentiment posts that leaves one angered and not filled with a positive light. For years I didn’t flag anything. Now I’m daily flagging political posts.

> filled with negative sentiment posts that leaves one angered and not filled with a positive light

You mean the negative sentiments that you get when people uncover how big tech/monopolies/government really works ? I guess you would rather read la-la-land stories about the entrepreneurial aces of the 2010s when techies and the general populace were still gullible for that.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#103

Post by nozzlegear »

ronnier wrote: post #73
Iuz wrote: post #70

Every time I open one of the multiple daily posts about Anthropic or OpenAI and read the comments, I get this weird feeling. Astroturfing is obviously common in political spaces, whether to normalize certain views, manufacture consensus, or shift public opinion. It seems to me that HN would be a prime target for tech companies to do the same thing, and lately I can't shake the impression that there's a lot of it goin…

Generally the comments are heavily anti AI to the point where it almost seems like it’s a foreign adversary trying to mold the public opinion to be anti ai to slow the progress of AI advancement in the USA

I think this is some sort of built-in bias we all have. I'm pretty bearish on AI, and to me I get the impression that generally most comments are heavily pro-AI, or pro-OpenAI/Anthropic. I think we're just biased to see and remember what we disagree with.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#104

Post by anthonyrstevens »

sznio wrote: post #21
aurareturn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I genuinely think that AI has accelerated so many different things that announcements from all companies will be incredibly common and fast. In my own company, the last 2 months, I feel like we've made more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle. AI has genuinely made us that much faster. In the past, making one of these announcements every month and the company celebrated. Now we're making…

> more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle have you considered the consequences of that or are you still drunk and thinking that this is a good thing?

This is needlessly combative and insulting.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#105

Post by anthonyrstevens »

wartywhoa23 wrote: post #43
dude250711 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's go back to caves, this whole "civilisation" thing is not working out.

Is reductio ad absurdum the only argument pro AI crowd can come up with? Like, why not stick to those products of civilization that don't actively try to replace humans who just so happen to comprise this very civilization?

I saw the GP as a snarky riposte against the doomerism of the anti-AI crowd.

Technology has been augmenting or replacing human work for as long as the first slab of rock was shoved up an inclined plane (wedge) and popped into its spot in the Great Pyramid.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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Post by qwerpy »

yaseer wrote: post #72
Iuz wrote: post #70

Every time I open one of the multiple daily posts about Anthropic or OpenAI and read the comments, I get this weird feeling. Astroturfing is obviously common in political spaces, whether to normalize certain views, manufacture consensus, or shift public opinion. It seems to me that HN would be a prime target for tech companies to do the same thing, and lately I can't shake the impression that there's a lot of it goin…

The death of HN has been lamented since at least 2007 (in addition to the cliche that it's turning into Reddit, mentioned in the guidelines). So far, it hasn't died nor turned into Reddit.

Yeah I’m gonna have to go ahead and push back on this. It’s getting worse and trending towards Reddit and using that guideline to tell people to stop talking about it is making things worse. We need to shame and downvote and flag the Reddit-tier posts and comments here.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#107

Post by ronnier »

mentalgear wrote: post #102
ronnier wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The political posts have definitely increased and the front page is increasingly filled with negative sentiment posts that leaves one angered and not filled with a positive light. For years I didn’t flag anything. Now I’m daily flagging political posts.

> filled with negative sentiment posts that leaves one angered and not filled with a positive light You mean the negative sentiments that you get when people uncover how big tech/monopolies/government really works ? I guess you would rather read la-la-land stories about the entrepreneurial aces of the 2010s when techies and the general populace were still gullible for that.

Yes. That’s not what I want to read on hn. You can go to Reddit or many other places for that and fill yourself with anger all you want. I personally do not want that for me and if hn continues the way it’s headed then I’ll block it like I did Reddit.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#108

Post by benjaopazoc »

mentalgear wrote: post #102
ronnier wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The political posts have definitely increased and the front page is increasingly filled with negative sentiment posts that leaves one angered and not filled with a positive light. For years I didn’t flag anything. Now I’m daily flagging political posts.

> filled with negative sentiment posts that leaves one angered and not filled with a positive light You mean the negative sentiments that you get when people uncover how big tech/monopolies/government really works ? I guess you would rather read la-la-land stories about the entrepreneurial aces of the 2010s when techies and the general populace were still gullible for that.

Negativity doesn't have to fill every space, even if you can find negativity everywhere. Maybe what HN has implicitly (and maybe explicitly) nurtured is intellectual curiosity for the sake of intellectual curiosity, which, in mi opinion es very orthogonal to negativity (even if it's intellectual adjacent).

I understand that maybe this is not what everyone wants (or understands) from HN, but I do sympathize with the other comment: after visiting HN I'd rather be happy and curious that angered and curious

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#109

Post by coreyburnsdev »

Iuz wrote: post #70

Every time I open one of the multiple daily posts about Anthropic or OpenAI and read the comments, I get this weird feeling. Astroturfing is obviously common in political spaces, whether to normalize certain views, manufacture consensus, or shift public opinion. It seems to me that HN would be a prime target for tech companies to do the same thing, and lately I can't shake the impression that there's a lot of it goin…

Funny you should mention them but not the multiple daily posts about the Chinese models and labs.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#110

Post by avazhi »

yaseer wrote: post #72
Iuz wrote: post #70

Every time I open one of the multiple daily posts about Anthropic or OpenAI and read the comments, I get this weird feeling. Astroturfing is obviously common in political spaces, whether to normalize certain views, manufacture consensus, or shift public opinion. It seems to me that HN would be a prime target for tech companies to do the same thing, and lately I can't shake the impression that there's a lot of it goin…

The death of HN has been lamented since at least 2007 (in addition to the cliche that it's turning into Reddit, mentioned in the guidelines). So far, it hasn't died nor turned into Reddit.

> So far, it hasn't died nor turned into Reddit.

Depends how you define it. I mean, just because you or the moderators say so doesn't make it true - I've used this site for more than 10 years and I've never seen a higher proportion of political posts nor a higher proportion of blatantly partisan comments on most (not just political) threads.

It isn't like this site would be likely to die in the sense of 0 people visit it, so I'm not sure what you even mean by it dying and have no clue how you'd even measure that. For all you know, most of the commenters are bots - I could be a bot for all you know. But the quality of discourse has definitely become less tech-focused since I first started coming here, and as a Reddit user from early on it very much reminds me of that. Reddit in the beginning was basically to Digg what HN is to Reddit today, and the trajectory is - subjectively to me at least - very similar. What started out as a nerdy tech space slowly over time has and is morphing into political bullshit that never would have made the front page 10 years ago.

Having said that, there's no doubt all these sites have astroturfing issues, and tech in particular tends to have very vociferous users as a rule.

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