Comment by 00F_

ive had maybe a hundred throwaway accounts on HN over the past ten years. generally, i make an account, say something that is apparently wildly offensive to someone else, get flagged and down-voted and then muted or hell-banned. then i make another account because i never did anything wrong and start the process over again. ive emailed the admins, tried to reason with the admins, it never does any good. the power is held by power-users who flag people -- most of the power of an admin at the end of the day but without any of the accountability. as long as they are following the mainstream dogma, its all good.

anyway, this app was able to identify a lot of my accounts. but a lot of the matches werent me. bold matches were almost all me. but i know there are many more matches than those that were listed. it mainly showed my most recent accounts.

i think most people would get a sick feeling in their stomach if they tried this app. i dont think people are prepared for a world where you can type someones name into an app like this and produce everything ever recorded online that was created by that person. not only this but everything highlighted and summarized to answer any question about that person. this is what advanced ai will bring us. an information implosion where the planet-sized ocean of data that is just floating all around us suddenly and violently coalesces into the objects of our new societal calculus. violent is a good word. and this is just the change that one can see coming with ai.