Soon we'll have that cognitive overhead on HN threads and there will be a larger volume to parse.
Will the comments still be worth reading at that point?
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Will the comments still be worth reading at that point?
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Of course machines are capable of valuable discourse, because humans are biological machines, and humans are capable of valuable discourse.
Intelligent contributions are welcome whether they come from silicon-based or carbon-based life.
Judge the content, not the source.
Deciding on the legitimacy of an “opinion” comes down to meta ways of assessing; including the length of the text (HN rewards longer responses if they can maintain coherence and interest), the language style used (don’t make a technical mistake and use a technical term in the wrong context), the logic with which the argument is laid out, the emotional tone of the writer (No jokes on HN please).
All of these are now gameable leading to say for risk for example of state actors shifting our collective opinions on a huge range of topics.
I regularly make spelling mistakes in my posts and when I don’t correct them I loose points as I think the coherence and easy of reading goes down. GPT3 is unlikely to have the same issues.
Please anyone?