Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?
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Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?
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#2>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment.
These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM
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#3>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM
These ai authorship accusations are now everywhere and it's getting really annoying.
It just distracts the discussion away and adds nothing.
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#455 answers to that poll, with no idea of if or how it has changed from last year. I do believe that many people are postponing upgrades, but those poll results are not worst spending that many words on.
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#5>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM
Nice en—dash.
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#6I updated my laptop this past December for fear of the RAM price hike.
Today I checked its price on the web I bought it and it was almost 300€ more.
Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?
#7>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM
These ai authorship accusations are now everywhere and it's getting really annoying. It just distracts the discussion away and adds nothing.
I disagree. Articles written by AI are inherently less trustworthy (they're notorious for fabrications and hallucinations) and often have a very low content density. "Write me a 10 paragraph article about high hardware prices for my blog" is the sort of thing that expands to a lot of fluff with not a lot of content. I don't really want to read that article.
Even if AI might (might) be justifiable as an editor, it's still such a negative signal for "is this worth reading?" that in my opinion it is worthwhile to point out and discuss.
Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?
#8>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM
Nice en—dash.
Sometimes, I wish hair spaces worked on HN so I could typeset em-dashes properly...
Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?
#9>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM
These ai authorship accusations are now everywhere and it's getting really annoying. It just distracts the discussion away and adds nothing.
On the contrary, GP's warning saved my time and attention. For that I thank them.
Re: Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?
#10>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment. These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM
I don't know, it would take quite a subtle prompt to get an LLM to write the sub-edited slop in the latter part of the article:
> We are now again in a new inflatory phase, and this time the difference is that it does not only impact GPUs, but almost everything really important, like RAM and NVME storage.
> But there’s also something new on the software side. The advent of new technologies like DLSS, FSR, and more recently Framegen have also changed the performance equation a bit.
> Finally, the games themselves are not pushing the enveloppe [sic] as much as they used to.
> but that’s not obvious that the visual outcomes are far better.
> We have entered in the marginal progress zone.