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A while back I made a little script (for fun/curiosity) that would do this for HN profiles. It’d use their submission and comment history to infer a profile inc
by nsypteras 1y ago
A while back I made a little script (for fun/curiosity) that would do this for HN profiles. It’d use their submission and comment history to infer a profile including similar stuff like location, political leaning, career, age, sex, etc. Main motivation was seeing some surprising takes in various comment threads and being curious about where it might have came from. Obviously no idea how accurate the profiles were, but it was similarly an interesting experiment in the ability of LLMs to do this sort of thing.
- morkalork 1y agoSomeone recently did this to predict what would hit the HN front page based on article content + profiles of users.
- nsypteras 1y agoThat's pretty cool! Now I can imagine a tool that gives you a prediction before you even post and then offers suggestions for how to increase performance...
- tencentshill 1y agoAnd now we see how easy it is to astroturf any given post, and that's without any budget.
- morkalork 1y agoGotta hand it to SamA for not only selling the problem but also trying to cash out on the solution (verified human via creepy orb eyeball blockchain thingy)
- swyx 1y agolink please? if you can find it
- nozzlegear 1y ago> Main motivation was seeing some surprising takes in various comment threads and being curious about where it might have came from. It'd be interesting to run it on yourself, at least, to see how accurate it is.
- mywittyname 1y agoI remember this. It was pretty accurate for myself, if a little saccharine (i.e., it said I was going to save the world, or some such).