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Death by AI

(davebarry.substack.com)
583 points ano-ther | 1 comments | 19 Jul 25 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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wkjagt ◴[20 Jul 25 11:34 UTC] No.44624160[source]▶
I love his writing, and this wonderful story illustrates how tired I am of anything AI. I wish there was a way to just block it all, similar to how PiHole blocks ads. I miss the pre-AI (and pre-"social"-network, and pre-advertising-company-owned) internet so much.
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7moritz7 ◴[20 Jul 25 11:38 UTC] No.44624194[source]▶
HN is a social network
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probably_wrong ◴[20 Jul 25 14:56 UTC] No.44625769[source]▶
I want to disagree: HN is social media, but it is not a social network.

For it to be a social network there should be a way for me to indicate that I want to hear either more or less of you specifically, and yet HN is specifically designed to be more about ideas than about people.

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1. wkjagt ◴[21 Jul 25 10:43 UTC] No.44633663[source]▶
Excellent point. I've never made the distinction really, but you're right. There's no relationship building here, just sharing and commenting.