<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: JohnFen</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JohnFen</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:47:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=JohnFen" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnFen in "Please, Use a Link"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He says this is a rant, but it isn't. It's a thoughtful criticism of a common but bad practice. But I'm very sympathetic to the criticism since this has long been on my pet peeves list.</p>
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<p>Could be. But you can't excuse murder by saying that other people murder more.</p>
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<p>I guess they didn't harm enough people the first time?</p>
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<p>> As a company, we’re committed to playing an active part and constructive role in addressing these issues.<p>No, you're not. You're committed to shoving this stuff down our throats as much and as hard as you can get away with. You need people to use this stuff heavily because you're dying for a ROI on money already burned. That's it. Everything else is just sales and PR rhetoric.</p>
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<p>Absolutely not. From an investment perspective, it's a far riskier bet than I'm comfortable making. From a societal perspective, I am not interested in having any of my money go to Musk or his companies if I can avoid it.</p>
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<p>> as long as it's used for the right reasons and that the data is kept secure<p>Two things that we have yet to be able to even reasonably ensure.</p>
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<p>I think it's even worse than that. Our industry has a strong track record of only looking at potential upsides (and pretending they're certain) and not even seeing that there may be serious downsides.<p>It's a kind of blindness. The kind that is, in my opinion, is one of the major reasons why we ended up building a world that's more than a bit dystopian.</p>
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<p>In the case of genAI using a particular expression style, there is less difference between those two meanings than it may seem. If genAI picks up an expression style, it means that style is less suitable for use by humans.</p>
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<p>It's so much easier for me to stay focused working from home as opposed to in the office. An office is filled with nothing but distraction, stress, interruptions, noise, etc.<p>But I do have habits I've developed over decades of working from home. I have a room dedicated solely to working. If I'm in there, I'm working. If I'm not in there, I'm not working. I get up, get ready for work, and "commute" to my office in the morning just as I do when going into an office. It's part of of the mental shift into work mode.</p>
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<p>> I just would like to know your feelings when, at some point through the reading, you realize that what you have in front has not been written by a person.<p>I feel tricked and angry. I stop reading and won't return to that source in the future.</p>
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<p>Only if your definition of "success" consists solely of accumulating wealth. Many people use a different definition.</p>
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<p>Being unfamiliar with tools you rely on comes with some downsides, it appears.</p>
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<p>Under no circumstances. If it becomes impossible to get medical care without exposing my data to genAI systems, I guess it becomes impossible to get medical care in the US.<p>> administration figures are working a pathway to regulate independent AI doctors, likening the change to the decades-long process that moved self-driving cars from test tracks to cities across the United States, Gleason said in an interview.<p>They may want to rethink that. The process of moving self-driving cars to city streets hasn't exactly been great.</p>
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<p>> But if a software company were to genuinely own up to their mistakes and say<p>Even then, it depends. If I've already switched away from said product or service, I'm not coming back regardless of what they say.</p>
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<p>It's an extraordinary claim for which there is little, if any, supporting evidence. It is also a claim that is likely to emerge from one of the oldest and most deeply-rooted human cognitive biases, pareidolia.<p>It weren't exceedingly unlikely, we'd see some reasonably solid evidence of the possibility that is independent of pareidolia.</p>
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<p>AGI is exceedingly unlikely to happen, so your worry is better spent on other things.<p>> If you disagree with this premise, please provide actual evidence<p>That's not the way that works. You're the one making the positive claim, it's on you to provide evidence to support your claim.</p>
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<p>> The type that you'd like lmgtfy at them before.<p>Which has always been an equally objectionable thing to do as well.</p>
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<p>> People quote other sources sometimes. That's entirely OK.<p>It's OK in the context of doing that to support a larger discussion they're participating in. It's not OK if the quote is the entirety of the response.<p>> you are more than likely to lose the person entirely from the conversation anyway.<p>Perhaps, but they weren't really participating in the discussion anyway.</p>
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<p>> The person is still willing to engage with you and still had to use their human words to prompt the AI.<p>But they aren't willing enough to participate to actually engage in a discussion. They're just making people interact with a bot with a layer of indirection. Apparently, they don't know (or care) that if someone wants the machine's answer rather than the person's, they'd just ask the machine directly.</p>
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<p>It's not in my top five concerns.</p>
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