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The Rise of Whatever

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628 points cratermoon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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Al-Khwarizmi ◴[04 Jul 25 07:33 UTC] No.44462070[source]▶
I disagree with many of the points on LLMs (but broadly agree with 80% of the post). But regardless of agreeing or not, it was a pleasure to read this because it's beautifully written, the arguments are solid, it makes you think, and the website has a personality, which is rare nowadays.

I clicked halfheartedly, started to read halfheartedly, and got sucked into a read that threw me back into the good old days of the internet.

A pity that the micropayments mentioned in the post never materialized, I'd surely throw a few bucks at the author but the only option is a subscription and I hate those.

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lmm ◴[04 Jul 25 09:32 UTC] No.44462875[source]▶
Eevee writes well but this is not one of her better posts IMO. Too many micro-digs at people who are white or straight, too much of the Twitter/Bluesky tone where you drop a snark bomb on the heckin' evil du jour and then just move on. If anything I'd say this has a lot less personality than older posts I remember.
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1. kixiQu ◴[04 Jul 25 21:24 UTC] No.44467988[source]▶
I know many people come to the comments before they decide if they want to read the article. For these people I would like to point out that

- there are zero digs of any kind about sexuality in this piece

- the only reference in the text I can possibly find that someone might have considered a "micro-dig at people who are white" is

> This is the driving force behind clickbait, behind thumbnails of white guys making 8O faces, behind red arrows, behind video essayists who just read Wikipedia at you three times a week like clockwork, [...]

To me this feels more like it's identifying a specific thing than a "micro-dig", but opinions may differ.