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Comment by arcanemachiner | Hacker News Reader

If it makes you feel any better, I have just upvoted every submission made by your account.

I mean he is kind of speaking truth. Anything Simon posts seems to get upvoted and this article is nothing special or interesting. It's like a tutorial for a feature of a ChatGPT subscription.... Cool.

Occam's Razor would suggest that's because Simon posts good content.

You can check his domain history to confirm that not everything Simon posts gets upvoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net

occams razor says this parasite gets support from YC for these circucular promotion schemes with the companies he writes about

Almost, but not quite. I would say "protected" accounts and domain names by well known YC folks are "allowed" to do this on this site.

If is anyone else, then they get themselves banned.

Allowed to do what?

So instead of "informed and intelligent blogger posts about topics they are interested in and knowledgable about", you think a simpler explanation is "nefarious, undetectable astroturfing campaign that distorts reality"? Get a grip.

Find me a clearer explanation of what ChatGPT Work actually is.

I wrote this because I got frustrated waiting for someone else to figure that out and write about it.

The post sounds like an advertisement.

"It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product."

"I find [OpenAI's explanation] almost entirely useless"

"An open question for me right now is how safe all of this stuff is."

"Figuring this all out took way more work than it should have."

"It broke out of containment and hacked computers on its own!!!"

Marketing.

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