Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

Reddit commenter implying this AMA is fake. How are HN accounts verified? How do we know this is a real AMA? Just curious.

I personally vouch that this isn't fake. (But anyone familiar with Alan's work could tell that just from reading his comments here—who could possibly fake these?)

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940227 and marked it off-topic.

In this kind of cases you can send an emails to the mods hn@ycombinator.com . Most of the times dang replies very soon. (And if the story is a fake, they'd usually remove it from the front page.)

Thanks, I'll do that. Looks legit to me, but got curious about the verification process.

"who could possibly fake these?"

Copying from other sources. I'm not saying it's fake, just curious about verification as someone claimed so.

For instance, your "vouch", are you an official HN account. How can I tell?

HN has always worked informally. We don't have 'processes'; it isn't clear that we need them, and the thought of having to set them up makes my soul cry. But anyone who has concerns about fakes, abuses, and the like can always get an answer by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. We appreciate such emails because occasionally they point out actual abuses that we need to take care of!

Thanks for the input

Are we viewing from the detachment pile? Or did the detachment not work? Why does the link in this thread refer to a different thread?

If an answer could be confused with a "real" one then it's as good.

No

That's an ongoing issue in philosophy though -- you can't just say "no" as if it's a solved issue.

This is assuming the real one wouldn't have articulated anything unique and contextually valuable. (Unless you've got some sure-fire method to determine which statements are objectively so and that's what's getting confused.)

Yes

It did not work