This one is funny though. I'd bet on Bing CoPilot, which now always agrees with "AI" concerns because MSFT has probably realized that no one wants "AI" and takes a more cautious approach.
For what it's worth, I had a similar "that looks like AI writing" response, and it wasn't because it was "too polished". And having looked at the rest of your comment history, the only reason why I'm only at 90% confidence it's all AI-generated rather than 100% is your explicit claims to the contrary. Today's LLMs have a definite style that is, sorry, not the same thing as being "polished", and if your comments have "zero automation involved" then it's quite the extraordinary coincidence how much more like an AI you sound than any other human writer I have ever encountered. And a further coincidence that this very AI-sounding human just happens to be selling services to "unlock Meaningful Business Outcomes With AI".
Yeah I'm confused because couldn't a black hole between us and a star be the reason for a black spot? That times a bajillion for whatever else is out there.
June (nine)teenth, seems pretty straightforward to me. Clearer than All Hallows' Evening --> Halloween.
>I bet if you I were to walk down the street here and ask 10 people what Juneteenth is only 1 would be able to do better than: "something to do with freeing the slaves".
And lots of people think Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day, doesn't make the holiday any less valid. It's just an issue of education.
> but that eventually would be sooner with a better name
Do you have some basis for thinking this? I rather suspect the reason White Americans don't know about it has more to do with the fact that it celebrates Black American history and culture, which is just not that popular among White Americans. (Of course there are exceptions, but the point is they're exceptions.) I seriously doubt that the name is the problem. The problem is that relatively few people are interested.
I'm not surprised some schoolkid is using AI for their science project (?), but it's very weird that so many comments on a tech-focused site like this are engaging with this extremely obvious ChatGPTese at face value. Is the underlying idea even biologically plausible? The whole thing seems like a hallucination produced by an inferior model.
Love their selection of photos more than the competition -- more likely to contain giveaways like a famous location from an unusual angle or a subtle date, so it feels more like detective work than guesswork. Just wish it reset at midnight local.
Kind of sloppy, though. An impossible Rubik's cube, a sudoku puzzle with incorrect numbers, a mirror showing a non-reversed reflection, a domed White House, a US flag with 32 stars...
I hate it. The distortions and refractions of every page element in the UI as you scroll (including moving in the opposite direction) would be maddening. I really hope there will be an option to turn this off, or at least tone it down.
Seems shortsighted to offer something like this with zero information about how it works. If your target market is privacy-conscious, slapping a "Privacy by Design" badge and some vague promises is probably not very convincing. (Also, the homepage claims "Your conversations remain on your device and are never sent to external servers," yet the ProductHunt page says "All requests are handled locally on my own farm and all data is burned" -- which is it?)
But in an arguably righteous way, which makes it even more challenging. (Specifically, the idea that humanity was essentially meaningless and dead already due to the lack of any real challenges or goals, as well as the desire to free the hundreds of alien worlds that had been frozen by PI.)
> Specifically, the idea that humanity was essentially meaningless and dead already due to the lack of any real challenges or goals
This is what I'm talking about though, this was wholly decided by the protagonists. They were certain that the lives of everyone else were worthless. The people who they were exterminating didn't get any input in the decision.
This is a common feature among humanity's most absolutely vile monsters.
The point of the book seems to be to argue about philosophical questions like what is or isn't human:
> But it remains a feedback control mechanism. It has desires, it asks Prime Intellect to satisfy those desires, and it has more desires. From Prime Intellect's perspective, that is what a human being is, an information structure that gives it stuff to do.
> Caroline interrupted him. "That's a tautology. The Laws say 'do this for human beings,' then you define 'human being' as 'guys you do stuff for under the Laws.'"
Do you feel bad for zombies in zombie movies? What about feeling sorry for ghosts in ghost stories? My point isn't that the answer is clear-cut, it's just that the underlying question isn't whether or not Catherine and Lawrence are horrible people, the question is whether humanity was even human anymore. Or even, whether humanity was even life anymore.
So in the spirit of that discussion--why do you think the things that Prime Intellect served were human?
> So in the spirit of that discussion--why do you think the things that Prime Intellect served were human?
I can't speak for the fictional group of humanity as a whole in that story, but I'd wager _they_ felt they were human, and there was an unambiguous lineage from the original humans.
I understand that it's just a story that makes you think about the grey area, it's just that for me it ends at "we used a sploit to genocide the human race because we were super bored reactionaries."
The redeeming theory for me is that their ending is just for them, Prime Intellect just sort of walls them off in their own shard and the rest of humanity goes on without noticing.
Implicit in your view is that if something thinks it’s human then it must be. I think that is an interesting viewpoint.
When I read the end, I felt relieved. It felt like a nightmare was over. So my viewpoint is that those creatures were not real / living in a literal sense, but more like remnants of something that was once really alive.
- cliché phrasing
- em dashes
- abundant alliteration
- all comments suspiciously similar in length
- all posts pointing to the same website
Does HN not have a policy against vapid AI comment spam? If not, it needs one.
edit: It does:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37617714
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