Posted by __rito__ 2 days ago
Now let's make a Chrome extension that subtly highlights these users' comments when browsing HN.
Shades of Roko's Basilisk!
The EU may give LLM surveillance an F at some point.
And scroll down to the bottom.
According to the ratings for example, one person both had extremely racist ideas but also made a couple of accurate points about how some tech concepts would evolve.
I try to temper my tendency to believe the Halo effect with Warren Buffett's notion of the Circle of Competence; there is often a very narrow domain where any person can be significantly knowledgeable.
If you dig in, there are substantial flaws in the project's analysis and framing, such as the definition of a prediction, assessing comments, data quality overall, and more. Go spelunking through the comments here and notice people asking about methodology and checking the results.
Social science research isn't easy; it requires training, effort, and patience. I would be very happy if Karpathy added a Big Flashing Red Sign to this effect. It would raise awareness and focus community attention on what I think are the hardest and most important aspects of this kind of project: methodology, rigor, criticism, feedback, and correction.
it's great that this was produced in 1h with 60$. This is amazing to create small utilities, explore your curiosity, etc.
But the site is also quite confusing and messy. OK for a vibe coded experiment, sure, but wouldn't be for a final product. But I fear we're gonna see more and more of this. Big companies downsizing their tech departments and embracing vibe coded. Comparing to inflation, shrinkflation and skimpflation/ enshittification , will we soon adopt some word for this? AIflation? LLMflation?
And how will this comment score in a couple of years? :)
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...