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Then why are you on HN right now? Everything on this page was written after AI.

by nba456_ 1mo ago

IshKebab 1mo ago
Come on you know what he means. Blog posts, articles, that sort of thing. AI has definitely made reading things posted to HN a much worse experience (even if they aren't all slop). It doesn't seem to have infected the comments yet, mercifully. I guess for a quick comment it's still easier to write it yourself than get Claude to do it.
- pessimizer 1mo ago
  It has infected the comments. Our patrons are fighting a good fight, but good slop is mostly indistinguishable from a worthless karma-farming comment. Mods are probably just cheating because there are people with 15-20 year old accounts, many of whom they personally know, and you can assume that the stuff they're interacting with is not slop or is at least worthy slop.
  - inflected00 1mo ago
    What's infected HN is the same old discourse; old people find the kids social tropes dangerous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_Advisory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_Advisory What's more realistic; 50+ year olds of today just parroting sensory experience where they heard their dead or dying elders complain about the kids back in the 00s, 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s... etc etc Or the 50+ year olds actually figured out how everything must work for the next 1,000 years they won't be around for The olds who grew up in a PTSD addled post world war and cold war social reality while huffing leaded gas smog? They figured it out forever, everyone! ...No. You figured out yourselves relative to technology of your day. Tech will change and the living will figure themselves out relative to their technology. You're just engaged in parroting specifics of your own experience.

Then why are you on HN right now? Everything on this page was written after AI.

by nba456_ 1mo ago

Then why are you on HN right now? Everything on this page was written after AI.

Come on you know what he means. Blog posts, articles, that sort of thing. AI has definitely made reading things posted to HN a much worse experience (even if they aren't all slop). It doesn't seem to have infected the comments yet, mercifully. I guess for a quick comment it's still easier to write it yourself than get Claude to do it.

pessimizer 1mo ago
It has infected the comments. Our patrons are fighting a good fight, but good slop is mostly indistinguishable from a worthless karma-farming comment. Mods are probably just cheating because there are people with 15-20 year old accounts, many of whom they personally know, and you can assume that the stuff they're interacting with is not slop or is at least worthy slop.
- inflected00 1mo ago
  What's infected HN is the same old discourse; old people find the kids social tropes dangerous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_Advisory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_Advisory What's more realistic; 50+ year olds of today just parroting sensory experience where they heard their dead or dying elders complain about the kids back in the 00s, 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s... etc etc Or the 50+ year olds actually figured out how everything must work for the next 1,000 years they won't be around for The olds who grew up in a PTSD addled post world war and cold war social reality while huffing leaded gas smog? They figured it out forever, everyone! ...No. You figured out yourselves relative to technology of your day. Tech will change and the living will figure themselves out relative to their technology. You're just engaged in parroting specifics of your own experience.