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I would like to nominate this comment as one of the best ever posted on HN. In fact, I would love to see a whole documentary about each of these points.


See "The Wright Brothers as Engineers" by Quentin Wald

https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-Engineers-Appraisal-E...


You can actually formally do just that, HN maintains a highlights list which you can email them nominations for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights


Thanks, I didn't know about that previously, although some sorting methods might be nice. It seems like quite a lot of comments are getting nominated that seem pretty...normal.


Check out Gregs Airplanes and Automobiles for really well researched aeronautic docs. He made one specifically about the Wrights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkpQAGQiv4Q


Really? :(


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Humans sometimes write punchy lists, too, especially when they're trying to prove a point. Where do you think the LLMs learned it?


Stylometry has me pegged with a predictable style that predates AI.


Writing that predates AI is precisely the type of writing AI mimics. :)


Distinguished computer scientist [EDIT: engineer!], seasoned writer, and longtime HN stalwart @WalterBright? Frankly I’d be willing to imagine the AI learned what it knows from him…


Thanks for the kind words! But I can't claim to be a computer scientist, as I have not done any research. Engineering is my calling, not science.


I do NOT think it is AI-generated (though it might be), and that belief could be part of why you are being downvoted.

I've been watching the sentiment on AI-related comments for a while. It seems to have somewhat turned back to "if it's useful, it's okay" as long as it isn't promoted as AI.


I've made similar postings on HN about the Wrights years before AI.


As noted, I did not think your comment was AI-generated.


> It seems to have mostly turned back to "if it's useful, it's okay"

No. Everyone still hates them with passion--at least when the commenter mentions that it is LLM generated.


Walter Bright is not an AI...


Walter Bright was replaced by a D9000 AI chatbot several years ago. He was jeopardizing the mission.




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