Or simply not participate in that conversation. It’s not obligatory to have an opinion on all subjects.
replyI 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.
replyYeah, 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.
reply> post valuable thoughts
replyThis is neither the mechanism nor the goal of human communication, not even on the internet.
Why? This is like saying that you should not use a car - because you should walk. Sometimes yes - but as a general rule?
replyThink 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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