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These topic-adjacent expert responses just reek of point harvesting by an LLM, I didn't do any such downvoting, but in the last year I've changed to this viewpoint.

Wait, so if it’s accurate, interesting, new to most of us, and adjacent to the topic… that’s a bad thing?

It's generally just barely on topic, generic fluff. Anything similar could have been posted, topic adjacent, without really contributing to the discussion. Remember we are on a discussion forum, not a place to dump data.

It is if it's LLM-generated; strictly verboten on HN. This doesn't look like that to me though.

Good y'all, however much I (born human and have all my shots) may have the misfortune to attract downvotes, I'm not a fershlugginer LLM. (Not sure what this says about my social skills, no wonder my dance card is M.T.) I do think that it was an interesting addition to the discussion of giant buglies. I personally had never thought about how predation by birds would have pressured prehistoric insects... and made our feathered friends so specialised and good at what they do.

Best human wishes!

I don't think you are! I was only moved to comment by the implication upthread that an informative LLM-generated comment might be welcome here. But yes, another HN norm is not making insinuations about commenters on threads (if people have concerns, they're meant to email hn@yc about it). And yet another norm is not to drive threads into their own navels with metacommentary, so here's where I should shut up.

Props to thee, my friend. Maybe I'm the one who should refrain, it's a haywire timeline.

And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

What's the point (pun intended) though? HN points don't net you anything. Except the first 500 maybe.

I often roll a fresh account for privacy and the amount of points really don't bother me.

But my point (sorry) is, why would someone even bother?

There's the leaderboard. Though the one time I noticed I'd showed up on it (others have long since overtaken me), it felt more like a warning I was spending too much time here.

I didn't know there was a leader board but now that I've looked at it I'm kind of disgusted by the fact that 20-ish percent of it is made up of names that are recognizable in an "oh, it's that guy who's always posting low effort links or riding the coat tails of a popular comment" way.

> HN points don't net you anything.

Dang! I thought i was at least earning dang's respect. ^_^

Sounds like predation of HN by LLM is a bigger concern.

One wonders when posts complaining about LLMs will be posted by a LLM.

I’m just trying to imagine a LLM flame war.

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