Yet another Hacker News

15 points colinprince 3 days ago 8 comments

tptacek 52 minutes ago | parent

Pangram flags this 100% AI written.

fluidcruft 30 minutes ago | parent

It reads like it too. I don't fully understand why a sentence like "It's the signature that costs." makes it into machine output (It costs... what? What does it cost?) But here we are.

axus 13 minutes ago | parent

To me it read like a human was pointedly imitating AI , but with a more antagonistic tone. Maybe he asked it to write the article "in his voice".

alwa 6 minutes ago | parent

A human, writing with the goal of scoring 100% AI on Pangram? Now that I could respect: Sokal for the LLM age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

alwa 12 minutes ago | parent

I kept wanting it to be substantial.

> The numbers were free. Everybody had the numbers. What cost money — what still costs a fortune — was the independent, accountable, provable attestation that the numbers were true.

Sigh. Please explain to my accountant how numbers are free, and her work is all an elaborate extortion racket for her signature. Ditto those famously… uh… “expensive”… notaries-public and CAs it mentions…

hapless 20 minutes ago | parent

Didn’t Cringely pass away recently?

Hugsbox 15 minutes ago | parent

According to a HN post, and basically nothing else that I can seem to find.

Who knows, maybe he's still alive and posted the death notice himself. Dude is/was a compulsive liar. There's still to this day no actual evidence that he genuinely has passed away (unless I'm just unable to find it)

lambda 10 minutes ago | parent

This post is also dated in July, which would have been before he passed away if that post was accurate.