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This is WILDLY optimistic

• qarl 6d ago
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  • mcphage 6d ago
    Oh, you can, no problem. But you’re also wrong, and getting downvoted because of it.
    • qarl 6d ago
      I'm wrong for pointing out that this entire line of thought - AI companies are trying to shirk blame by pinning it on their software - is unhinged? No friend, I am not. It is hysterics pure and simple.
      • BHSPitMonkey 6d ago
        A few excerpts from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html worth a careful re-read: > In Comments > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
        • qarl 5d ago
          Why are you replying on this comment? As near as I can tell, I was in fact right. I just didn't follow the laws of HN communication to express it, on a thread where the person I replied to didn't follow it either. It would have been more appropriate to pile on with the others above.
  • wavemode 6d ago
    Parent commenter didn't say anything about you personally. They disagreed with you, yes, but that's not an insult.
    • qarl 6d ago
      So I can say "that is wildly unhinged" but I can't say "you are wildly unhinged"? You understand that's pedantic, right? But ok, noted: must be pedantic on HN. Do not use second person. EDIT: SHIT! My bad. I meant to say: "I wonder if the person I am speaking to understands that's pedantic."
      • Sharlin 5d ago
        I don’t know what spectrum you’re on, but attacking an argument and attacking a person are two wildly different things. There’s nothing pedantic about that.
        • qarl 5d ago
          [flagged]
          • Sharlin 5d ago
            Ah, you’re just a troll. Flaggety-flag. Have fun in the hellban-land.
            • qarl 5d ago
              My friend, I attacked the statement, not the person, just as you recommended. I see you have trouble with the distinction too. And I'm pretty sure "I don’t know what spectrum you’re on" is also an insult. Naughty naughty.
  • dgellow 6d ago
    What insult?
    • qarl 5d ago
      Implying I'm being naive. I apologize, but I don't find the syntactic rules of this site to be well thought out. "Your comments are stupid" and "You are stupid" carry the same meaning.
      • Sharlin 5d ago
        No they do not. Smart people are in no way immune to making naive, ignorant, or not-well-thought-out arguments. Also, if you feel that someone attacks you personally, responding in kind can only ever make you look like an idiot.
        • qarl 5d ago
          WHOAH that is a myopic statement. It sounds like the legalistic argument an autistic person would make. > responding in kind can only ever make you look like an idiot. LOL. I'm so glad you didn't just insult me there. I think it would make you look like an idiot, by your own reasoning... no?
• qarl 5d ago
  My apologies. I should have said: this is wildly unhinged.