Posted by __rito__ 12/10/2025
Your past thoughts have been dredged up and judged.
For each $TOPIC, you have been awarded a grade by GPT-5.1 Thinking.
Your grade is based on OpenAI's aligned worldview and what OpenAI's blob of weights considers Truth in 2025.
Did you think well, netizen?
Are you an Alpha or a Delta-Minus?
Where will the dragnet grading of your online history happen next?
I'd expect de-biasing would deflate grades for well known users.
It might also be interesting to use a search-grounded model that provides citations for its grading claims. Gemini models have access to this via their API, for example.
I [as a human] also do the same thing when observing others in IRL and forum interactions. Reputation matters™
----
A further question is whether a bespoke username could influence the bias of a particular comment (e.g. A username of something like HatesPython might influence the interpretation of that commenter's particular perception of the Python coding language, which might actually be expressing positivity — the username's irony lost to the AI?).
I got an A for commenting on DF saying that I had not personally seen save corruption and listing weird bugs. It's true that weird bugs have long been a defining feature of DF, but I didn't predict it would remain that way or say that save corruption would never be a big thing, just that I hadn't personally seen it.
Another A for a comment on Google wallet just pointing out that users are already bad at knowing what links to trust. Sure, that's still true (and probably will remain true until something fundamental changes), but it was at best half a prediction as it wasn't forward looking.
Then something on hospital airships from the 1930s. I pointed out that one could escape pollution, I never said I thought it would be a big thing. Airships haven't really ever been much of a thing, except in fiction. Maybe that could change someday, but I kinda doubt it.
Then lastly there was the design patent famously referred to as the "rounded corner" patent. It dings me for simplifying it to that label, despite my actual statements being that yes, there's more, but just minor details like that can be sufficient for infringement. But the LLM says I'm right about ties to the Samsung case and still oversimplifying it. Either way, none of this was really a prediction to begin with.
That said, I understand the concept and love what you did here. By this being exposed to the best disinfectant, I hope it will raise awareness and show how people and corporations should be careful about its usage. Now this tech is accessible to anyone, not only big techs, in a couple of hours.
It also shows how we should take with a grain of salt the result of any analysis of such scale by a LLM. Our private channels now and messages on software like Teams and Slack can be analyzed to hell by our AI overlords. I'm probably going to remove a lot of things from cloud drives just in case. Perhaps online discourse will deteriorate to more inane / LinkedIn style content.
Also, I like that your prompt itself has some purposefully leaked bias, which shows other risks—¹for instance, "fsflover: F", which may align the LLM to grade worse the handles that are related to free software and open source).
As a meta concept of this, I wonder how I'll be graded by our AI overlords in the future now that I have posted something dismissive of it.
¹Alt+0151
* ignore comments that do not speculate on something that was unknown or had not achieved consensus as of the date of yyyy-mm-dd
* at the same time, exclude speculations for which there still isn’t a definitive answer or consensus today
* ignore comments that speculate on minor details or are stating a preference/opinion on a subjective matter
* it is ok to generate an empty list of users for a thread if there are no comments meeting the speculation requirements laid out above
* etc
But it reminds me that I miss Manishearth's comments! What ever happened to him? I recall him being a big rust contributor. I'd think he'd be all over the place, with rust's adoption since then. I also liked tokenadult. interesting blast from the past.
I wonder why ChatGPT refused to analyze it?
The HN article was "Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage" but the page says "No analysis available".
Alternate metaphor: evil catnip - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
But yesterday's thread and this one are clearly exceptions—far above the median. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212180 was particularly incredible I think!
A personal favourite is “the contrarian dynamic”.
Do you have a list of those at the ready or do you just remember them? If you feel like sharing, what’s your process and is there a list of those you’d make public?
I imagine having one would be useful, e.g. for onboarding someone like tomhow, though that doesn’t really happen often.
The process is simply that moderation is super repetitive, so eventually certain pathways get engraved in one's memory. A lot of the time, though, I can't quite remember one of these patterns and I'm unable to dig up my past comments about it. That's annoying, in that particular way when your brain can feel something's there but is unable to retrieve it.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...