Comment by ninetyninenine
18 hours ago
I'm skeptical because my entire identity is basically built around being a software engineer and thinking my IQ and intelligence is higher than other people. If this AI stuff is real then it basically destroys my entire identity so I choose the most convenient conclusion.
Basically we all know that AI is just a stochastic parrot autocomplete. That's all it is. Anyone who doesn't agree with me is of lesser intelligence and I feel the need to inform them of things that are obvious: AI is not a human, it does not have emotions. It just a search engine. Those people who are using AI to code and do things that are indistinguishable from human reasoning are liars. I choose to focus on what AI gets wrong, like hallucinations, while ignoring the things it gets right.
> [...] my entire identity is basically built around [...] thinking my IQ and intelligence is higher than other people.
Well, there's your first problem.
I don't know, that's commendable self-insight, it's true of lots and lots of people but there are few who would admit it!
I am unique. Totally. It is not like HN is flooded with cognition or psychology or IQ articles every other hour. Not at all. And whenever one shows up, you do not immediately get a parade of people diagnosing themselves with whatever the headline says. Never happens. You post something about slow thinking and suddenly half the thread whispers “that is literally me.” You post something about fast thinking and the other half says “finally someone understands my brain.” You post something about overthinking and everyone shows up with “wow I feel so seen.” You post something about attention and now the entire site has ADHD.
But yes. I am the unique one.
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This kind of comment certainly shows that no organic stochastic parrots post to hn threads!
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