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Not doubting the method works in general, but Simon Willison is a public-enough figure so the baseline level of info is higher than just HN comments. If you turn off Claude’s web search: > Simon Willison is a British software developer, blogger, and open-source advocate, best known for…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I ingest, process, and archive the HN firehose. I know others do as well. Regardless of how one feels, once you put something on the Internet, any hope of control of that info is gone forever. Act accordingly. They are kind enough to make changes within some forum integrity tolerances, even though those changes are likely to help very little from an opsec perspective. Edit: my use case is building a graph for archivi…
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Edit: turns out it's case sensitive.
Sounds about right:
roughly “anti-imperialist realist” with Indian/Global South anchoring and paleoconservative/libertarian-adjacent distrust of state-corporate surveillance power.
This is...disquieting. It's one thing to know that it's possible, another thing to know nation states or large megacorps are doing it, but another thing entirely to see such verbose output from free models about, well, me . The first two, I've made peace with (nothing I can do about it anyway). The last one picks quite fiercely at old trauma that really makes me reconsider my socials in general, not just HN. But mayb…
Anyone with access to a decent LLM can now perform a version of this in just a few seconds.
https://antirez.com/hnstyle?username=pg&threshold=20&action=...
Which lets you find the alts of a handle
If you contact them and ask for your data to be deleted, they will directly refuse.
> Old man raising fist at, and yelling at, clouds. Get off his lawn.
[^1]: not really - this is speculation (so... kinda the same thing the LLM is doing) but is possibly an accurate representation.
>The word "engineer" being diluted by software/bootcamp culture is something they return to obsessively — arguably their strongest ideological position alongside surveillance criticism
Busted!!
That being said, not surprised because it listed exactly what I want my persona to appear, does that mean I am like that irl? No, I rarely bring the above “engineer” term IRL let alone to be obsessed about it, but in HN it makes sense to bring up, rest are mostly about techie stuff that I usually don’t bring with my friends or family. Also, this can be about anything you produce, like your blog, books, YouTube, or anything, that personality is what attracts (or repels) other people to be around you, it’s human society 101.
> “Two things can be true at the same time” — he holds nuanced positions I feel the need to point out that 99% of the time that phrase is essentially an insult and isn’t indicative of a “nuanced position” lol it generally means “you’re myopic in your views/your argument lacks nuance.” That strikes me as a pretty charitable interpretation by the model there. You seem like a good dude, and I’m not going to pretend I ha…
Hah, that's completely fair. When I say "two things can be true at the same time" it's usually in a combative tone when I think someone is making a weak argument.