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Comment by DanielBMarkham | Hacker News Reader

This is good, but I'd like to point out that it's at least the third time this same article has appeared on HN.

I wasn't sure if I should comment about that or not. I know lots of folks haven't seen it, so thanks for posting, but for those of us who have already clicked twice, it wasn't as enjoyable the third time around as it was the first.

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I agree that dupes can be annoying, but even after being on HN for a fairly long time (almost 2 years) and visiting a little too often, this is the first time I have seen this piece of writing and I found it very worthwhile. For some odd reason, I had never really read fully about Overcoming Bias or the new Less Wrong blog and wiki with all that it has to offer and I think I will spend a lot of time reading that in the next few weeks.

Thus, thank you for the dupe.

Normally I'm opposed to dupes, but every once in a while there's something that everybody should see.

This probably falls into that category, if you couple it with the AI-Boxing experiment (previously mentioned in this thread). The results of that experiment are so profound and disturbing that everybody should have some exposure.

I actually don't have a problem with dupes. I just wish there was some way for me to know that I've already read it. Most times I don't remember from the title alone.

Ah, understood. Sorry if I misread you.

I totally agree it would be nice to be able to flag previously-read articles, or manage dupes in some other elegant way. It seems like a non-trivial problem, though.

I agree, definately in regards to tech. Would it hurt to re-run a bit of Hibernate, Swing or even something as basic as Ant?

Third time here as well, and yet I must report that I enjoyed it just as much the third time as the first two! (that is, a lot)

(Just to offer a piece of counter-evidence)

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