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Please don't do this. We don't want HN comments that are just copies of/pointers to LLM output.

@dang I feel like this is getting close to the lowest level of discourse and occurs somewhat often these days where people overly reference the output of some AI and then are challenging the results without googling. I feel a proper hacker ethos would spur someone to find a real answer. So in honor of the name of the site maybe disallow refutations or other dismissals of a submission based on the output of an AI or overly long discussion that is offtopic about an AI?

Tom and I of course agree! But it's not so easy to disallow things, since humans do $thing anyway.

Most probably the long-term solution is for the community to express this preference by flagging comments that do this. I think we see signs of that happening, which is good, because a community solution is better than a technical solution (and way better than an authority solution) any day.

Btw, tapirl is a good contributor and I don't think they did anything particularly wrong. It just takes time for us all to learn the optimal patterns together.

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