mitchdoogle

4 mesi fadiscuss

You're painting this as some sort of hypocrisy but I don't think that's the case. AI has infinite legitimate uses outside of creating slop. Lots of tools are used in the creation and distribution of slop - do we criticize all those other tools too? Do you like slop? Do you want it on the platforms you visit? Personally, I would prefer for AI companies to take the attitude that YCombinator has here and do their best to remove slop from their platforms. It's not hypocrisy - it's ethical business practice.

mitchdoogle

4 mesi fadiscuss

When I have AI write things for me, I'm spending a good amount of time on it - certainly longer than it takes to read. I'm also usually editing it quite a bit. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I still don't think it's appropriate to make a blanket statement about using AI to write content violating this social contract you described.

mitchdoogle

5 mesi fadiscuss

Of course the process can be stopped. That's just a lack of imagination.

mitchdoogle

3 anni fadiscuss

The Library of Congress collects films

mitchdoogle

3 anni fadiscuss

"You (or anyone) is free to think whatever you want about yourself or others - but you are not free to force others to think like you"

No one cares what anyone else thinks. The only thing that matters is behavior. If your behavior is harmful to others, then we certainly are free to try and change that behavior.

mitchdoogle

4 anni fadiscuss

THE American DEA consider "narcotic" to be synonymous with "opioid": https://www.mcieast.marines.mil/Portals/33/Documents/Safety/...

However, the term does come up with other meanings. The international narcotics control board (UN) deems opioids as narcotics, but also cannabis and cocaine: https://www.incb.org/incb/en/narcotic-drugs/index.html

But typically amphetamines are not classified as narcotics, even though you could argue they are based on dictionary definitions, i.e. "a drug (such as marijuana or LSD) subject to restriction similar to that of addictive narcotics whether physiologically addictive and narcotic or not" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narcotic

mitchdoogle

4 anni fadiscuss

There is strong evidence that ADHD is overdiagnosed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042533/

And of course, there is the issue of drug-seeking - for increased concentration and focus, for fun, or some other reason. And many doctors suspect patients of drug-seeking. Symptoms can easily be faked and are difficult to spot.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3173757/ https://healthland.time.com/2011/04/28/faking-it-why-nearly-...

mitchdoogle

6 anni fadiscuss

I'm tired of advertisements posing as blog posts. Can Hacker News include a notice on posts like these?

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