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Comment by hosel

7 hours ago

Without the pelicans I don’t know what to think

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>Draw a Hacker News-style comment thread. Top comment by a user named "pelican_enjoyer": "Without the pelicans I don't know what to think." Reply from "minimaxir" in a grumpy tone: "Since people keep doing it: no, you don't have to make an allusion to Simon's pelicans every time a Hacker News thread about a new LLM pops up. It's a lower-effort joke than even Reddit memes." Beside the thread, show a pelican riding a bicycle, looking smug.

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minimaxir  6 hours ago

Since people keep doing it: no, you don't have to make an allusion to Simon's pelicans every time a Hacker News thread about a new LLM pops up. It's a lower-effort joke than even Reddit memes.

  • hypfer  5 hours ago

    I'd just read it as social friction, just like I'd read your comment as that very same thing.

    This is the consensus mechanism doing its job, essentially.

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    Though to be fair, the way I frame it assumes no connections between nodes and independent choices, when in reality, we have groups supporting each other.

    So it's not necessarily the best mechanism, as social cohesion and other such dysfunctions might be steering away from the objectively correct solution through not necessarily rational biases.

    Or rather not necessarily rational when viewed in just the specific context, but possibly rational when zooming out and considering whole-subsystem health.

    • minimaxir  5 hours ago

      Low-effort content is generally discouraged on Hacker News because it lowers the quality of the site. It's not a deep commentary on socioeconomics.

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