What's up with all the new accounts astroturfing AI? There are multiple in these threads. People from the 'foundation model' companies having to keep up the AI hype?
Usually they provide grandiose claims (like the top-level comment) without any evidence or just anecdotal evidence that is not verifiable.
Just woke up from half my nights sleep to see what HN is talking about at 1 am pst on a Friday.
Oh look more useless arguing.
People who do things care about the doing more than how the sausage was made.
I do not care how software gets built. Only that it works. Results is the only thing that matters and I hope everyone in this thread internalizes that fact.
Crucially, those rules were written before the invention of the new astroturfing machine which makes it more trivial than ever. HN had to impose restrictions around new amounts already, such as limitations on Show HN, so clearly something is going on and being recognised as such.
not an astroturf and didn’t want to be associated with my main which has identifying info. Wanted to offer a perspective aside from the majority skeptic view on HN
What's up with all the new accounts astroturfing AI? There are multiple in these threads. People from the 'foundation model' companies having to keep up the AI hype?
Usually they provide grandiose claims (like the top-level comment) without any evidence or just anecdotal evidence that is not verifiable.
Elsewhere I called it akin to Bannon's "flood the zone" marketing strategy.
HN is lousy with new accounts (created in the past year) that are overwhelmingly excited for the so-called AI revolution.
Just woke up from half my nights sleep to see what HN is talking about at 1 am pst on a Friday.
Oh look more useless arguing.
People who do things care about the doing more than how the sausage was made.
I do not care how software gets built. Only that it works. Results is the only thing that matters and I hope everyone in this thread internalizes that fact.
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Can usually sniff them out because their comments are long and give lots of (vague) examples.
There's good money to be made in prolonging the hype.
Just what kind of evidence do you suppose they could have?
Showing actual improved products and features. Showing actual code. etc.
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Please read what the HN guidelines say about insinuations of astroturfing, because it very much applies here.
Crucially, those rules were written before the invention of the new astroturfing machine which makes it more trivial than ever. HN had to impose restrictions around new amounts already, such as limitations on Show HN, so clearly something is going on and being recognised as such.
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not an astroturf and didn’t want to be associated with my main which has identifying info. Wanted to offer a perspective aside from the majority skeptic view on HN
Also I provided the list of actual hype ha
Real inventions don't need hype they speak for themselves.
Financial incentives
RSI?
Great example of what we used to call: "default definition changed". RSI 20 years ago = Repetitive Strain Injury RSI today: Recursive Self Improvement
There's a rude but high quality joke waiting to be mined out of that transition
To me it is Relative Strenght Index
Probably Recursive Self-Improvement