Comment by discreteevent
3 years ago
It's the only bit of the response that I don't agree with. I don't come to HN solely for utilitarian purposes. If I think I'm frequently communicating with a machine on HN then then I'll stop going to HN. It really will kill HN for me. If I want to communicate with a machine for utilitarian purposes then I'll go directly to the machine and I will know that I'm communicating with a machine (a machine that cannot bring me any new experience from the real world that was not mediated in text. A machine that can only select that text on a statistical basis. A machine that was in part trained on my own words from the past!).
Yes, I agree - it was a throwaway line that I didn't think through. Maybe I'll add an edit. Thanks!
I thought it was Brillant personally - that if what we’re posting is pretty indistinguishable from a bot then it’s not really worth posting.
Heck the “don’t post the obvious boring response” rule is basically that.
I apologize
If you mean about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950722, that's fine, but please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can sort it for you.
> If I think I'm [...]
If the problem is your faith, it is you that has to change and not the world. It's much easier that way around too :)