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Comment by dang

3 days ago

I know how frustrating it is to have a contrarian opinion and get smacked with the majority's reaction to it (believe me, I know - it's an asymmetric experience in the worst way) - but lashing out is not a good way to react to that. It only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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lovich  3 days ago

It’s very frustrating for the bot’s reinforcement function.

This is another account created after widespread access to LLM was available to the public that is pushing a political view that is somewhat coherent until pressed and then it falls apart like all chat bots

Maybe it’s a real person and I’m being an asshole here, but it’s hard to tell.

The fact that is hard to tell if they are real or not means we need to come up with a heuristic to identify actual humans now that passing the Turing test has become trivially cheap.

  • dang  2 days ago

    > Maybe it’s a real person and I’m being an asshole here, but it’s hard to tell.

    The site guidelines are clear on this: you should assume that it's a real person and try your best to reel back these sorts of accusations, which are nearly always wrong, and nearly always driven by differences of background and (therefore) opinion.

    https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... of course)

  • alex1138  3 days ago

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    • rcxdude  3 days ago

      Maybe, but someone engaged with you and your response showed it was utterly unproductive to do so. COVID may have been mishandled but it does nothing to justify the administrations decisions regarding healthcare. If that's the reason you think positively of the man then you should evaluate the rest of what he's said and done.

      If you have the time, two podcasts from this doctor which I think kind of highlight what's going on:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OF6vP-SkGA (where they have a frank discussion about what was done badly during COVID, including government lies)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBllzAb_vAk (where they have a discussion with one of the leading researchers on nutrition, who has come into direct conflict with RFK Jr. because he doesn't say exactly what RFK Jr. believes to be the case, and has had papers censored and funding cut as a result)

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