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This is like saying "I use a motorized scooter at walmart, not because I can't walk, but because it 'walks' better than I can."
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If an LLM writes better than you do, you need to take a long look in the mirror and figure what you can do to fix that, because it's not a good thing.
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> if you ban this you would just lose the information that it was generated.

The argument is that the information it generated is just noise, and not valuable to the conversation thread at all.

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This is... I'll go with "dystopian". If you're not sure you can properly explain an idea, you should think about it more deeply.
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Or simply not participate in that conversation. It’s not obligatory to have an opinion on all subjects.
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I thought that the point was to post valuable thoughts - because it is interesting to read them. But now you suggest that it depends on how they were generated.
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Yeah, but if you're having to turn to a machine to compose your thoughts on a subject they're probably not that valuable. In an online community like this the interesting (not necessarily valuable) thoughts are the ones that come from personal experience, and raise the non-obvious points that an LLM is never going to come up with.
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> post valuable thoughts

This is neither the mechanism nor the goal of human communication, not even on the internet.

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Why? This is like saying that you should not use a car - because you should walk. Sometimes yes - but as a general rule?
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Think of HN as a pedestrian district, then. Cars are fine elsewhere. They don't belong here, it wasn't built for them.
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You have to be joking
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Meh. Might as well encourage people to post links to search results then too.
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I like when someone links to where he found the information.
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