Hacker News: Throwaway78389https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Throwaway78389Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:09:10 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Throwaway78389 in "ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time"]]>I don't think I agreed with anything you said.

I work with all available material in many different ways (Anki cards, videos, different explanations of the same thing, etc), and ChatGPT is another way to learn and help me generate learning material. For example I have it ask me questions like a tutor would. Or I ask various questions when I'm unsure about the wider context - e.g. it provides much more about the underlying physics than the Pilot Handbook itself. If I don't understand, I can ask for clarification, or an explanation like I am 5.

Reading the Pilot Handbook is a big part of learning but being limited to it would be hard. I'm very happy about having Chatgpt available.

]]>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:24:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34645572Throwaway78389https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34645572https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34645572<![CDATA[New comment by Throwaway78389 in "ChatGPT: The Slickest Con Artist of All Time"]]>How many hours you spent trying ChatGPT out? I spent at least high tens, maybe even hundreds. You're absolutely wrong. Yes, it hallucinates, yes its wrong about obscure topics - but calling having success with it luck is absolutely wrong. It's very consistently good. Especially about things like programming, physics, math - and now I'm using it as my teaching assistant for my pilot training, it's perfect (and I can very simply verify the answers are good with my FAA Pilot Handbook, don't worry).

]]>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:58:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34643879Throwaway78389https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34643879https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34643879<![CDATA[New comment by Throwaway78389 in "Ask HN: Why do cameras stop recording after 30 minutes?"]]>I really want technology to be as good as it gets, not as good as tax/tariff law allows.

]]>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:21:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642200Throwaway78389https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642200https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34642200<![CDATA[New comment by Throwaway78389 in "John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence"]]>> China will keep going in whatever path they are going, but supercharged with AGI, and we must desperately follow

Exactly right but for one detail - we must desperately lead.

What other countermeasure do you have in mind?

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