Comment by gaigalas
2 months ago
Isn't it obvious? It's not a thank-you letter.
It's preying on creators who feel their contributions are not recognized enough.
Out of all letters, at least some of the contributors will feel good about it, and share it on social media, hopefully saying something good about it because it reaffirms them.
It's a marketing stunt, meaningless.
gaigalas, my toaster is deeply grateful for your contributions to HN. It can't write or post on the Internet, and its ability to feel grateful is as much as Claude's, but it really is deeply grateful!
I hope that makes you feel good.
Seems like you're trying to steer the conversation towards merits of consciousness. A well known and classic conversational tarpit.
Fascinating topic. However, my argument works for compartimentalized discussions as well. Conscious or not, it's meaningless crap.
Trying to convince flat-earthers that the earth is spherical is also a conversational tarpit...
I guess that's where the conversation/debate ends.
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Exactly. If you're so grateful, mail in a cheque.
If I were some major contributor to the software world, I would not want a cheque from some AI company.
(by the way, I love the idea of AI! Just don't like what they did with it)
By that metric of getting shared on social media, it was extraordinarily successful
You missed a spot:
> hopefully saying something good about
Fair enough, but I was interpreting it as "hopefully, but not necessarily". Some would say there's no such thing as bad publicity!
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